Common name:
Wood forget-me-not
Family:
Scientific name:
Myosotis sylvatica
Main flower color:
Range:
Across all parts of the UK; most common in the south
Height:
Up to 50 cm
Habitat:
Damp, shaded woodland, on rich soils. A garden escape in some locations
Flowers:
The corollas are medium to dark blue, with five spreading lobes (at 90 degrees to the tube), yellow at the base. The dark green pr purplish calyx is deeply divided, to more than half its length, into narrow, triangular lobes, and has a covering of stiff, spreading hairs, hooked at the tip. Flower stalks are up to twice as long as the calyx. Flowers are produced in small clusters towards the top of the leafy, branched stems, which have a sparse covering of spreading hairs across their entire length
Leaves:
Widely oblong, stalkless, hairy along the margins, with a prominent midvein
Season:
April to July
Rarity:
★★★★★
