OF THE CAROLINAS & GEORGIA

Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Eudicots: Core Eudicots: Asterids: Lamiids: Boraginales? order assignment uncertain

WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Myosotis verna   FAMILY Boraginaceae   Go to FSUS key



SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Myosotis verna   FAMILY Boraginaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)

Myosotis verna

INCLUDED WITHIN Great Plains Flora Association (1986)

Myosotis verna

SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 161-07-003:

Myosotis verna   FAMILY Boraginaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH (MISAPPLIED) Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)

Myosotis virginica

 

COMMON NAME:
Spring Forget-me-not, Early Forget-me-not, Early Scorpion-grass


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USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913    pnd_myvi2_001_lvd

        

image of Myosotis verna, Spring Forget-me-not, Early Forget-me-not, Early Scorpion-grass

JK Marlow    jkm160421_286287

April    Sevier County    TN

Great Smoky Mountains National Park

An erect, sometimes branched, stem up to 16" high, per Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains (Smith, 1998).

image of Myosotis verna, Spring Forget-me-not, Early Forget-me-not, Early Scorpion-grass

JK Marlow    jkm160421_287b

April    Sevier County    TN

Great Smoky Mountains National Park

image of Myosotis verna, Spring Forget-me-not, Early Forget-me-not, Early Scorpion-grass

Roxanna Martin    rlm41711_99

April    Spartanburg County    SC

Fruiting pedicels more or less erect. Inflorescence internodes < 10mm, per Weakley's Flora.

image of Myosotis verna, Spring Forget-me-not, Early Forget-me-not, Early Scorpion-grass

Roxanna Martin    rlm4910_304

April    Spartanburg County    SC

image of Myosotis verna, Spring Forget-me-not, Early Forget-me-not, Early Scorpion-grass

Roxanna Martin    rlm4911_182

April    Spartanburg County    SC

image of Myosotis verna, Spring Forget-me-not, Early Forget-me-not, Early Scorpion-grass

Roxanna Martin    rlm4911_224

April    Spartanburg County    SC

Flower white; calyx irregular with some of its hairs hooked at the end, per Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains (Smith, 1998).

image of Myosotis verna, Spring Forget-me-not, Early Forget-me-not, Early Scorpion-grass

Roxanna Martin    rlm4911_227

April    Spartanburg County    SC

Flowers less than 1/8" wide, per Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains (Smith, 1998).

image of Myosotis verna, Spring Forget-me-not, Early Forget-me-not, Early Scorpion-grass

Roxanna Martin    rlm4911_232

April    Spartanburg County    SC

Leaves oblong or narrowly elliptic, mostly 1-5cm long, 2-10mm wide, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968).

image of Myosotis verna, Spring Forget-me-not, Early Forget-me-not, Early Scorpion-grass

Roxanna Martin    rlm4911_331

April    Spartanburg County    SC

image of Myosotis verna, Spring Forget-me-not, Early Forget-me-not, Early Scorpion-grass

Roxanna Martin    rlm4911_421

April    Spartanburg County    SC

Found in dry, open woods, per Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians (Horn, Cathcart, Hemmerly, & Duhl, 2005).

 

 

WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Myosotis verna   FAMILY Boraginaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Myosotis verna   FAMILY Boraginaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Myosotis verna

INCLUDED WITHIN Great Plains Flora Association (1986)
Myosotis verna

SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 161-07-003:
Myosotis verna   FAMILY Boraginaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH (MISAPPLIED) Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Myosotis virginica

 

Find by SCIENTIFIC NAME:

3316

Forb
Winter annual

Habitat: Dry woodlands, roadsides, disturbed areas, dry fields, per Weakley's Flora

Native to the Carolinas & Georgia

Common in Carolina Piedmont & Carolina Coastal Plain (uncommon to rare elsewhere in GA-NC-SC)

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LEAVES:
Simple
Alternate

FLOWER:
Spring/Summer
White
5-lobed calyx
5-lobed salverform corolla
Superior ovary
Bisexual

Flowers in terminal, helicoid, false racemes

FRUIT:
Schizocarp of specialized mericarps (nutlets)

 

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