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 scorpioides
FAMILY
Boraginaceae
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Dig deeper at SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.
Check out EDDMapS.org to see where this has been reported.
Read more about Water Scorpion-grass at Vascular Plants of North Carolina.
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Myosotis scorpioides
FAMILY
Boraginaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Myosotis scorpioides
SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 161-07-001:
Myosotis scorpioides FAMILY Boraginaceae
(?) Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Myosotis palustris
COMMON NAME:
Water Scorpion-grass, True Forget-me-not
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USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913 pnd_mysc_001_lvd
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USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / USDA Wetland flora: Field office illustrated guide pnd_mysc_007_lvd
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Richard and Teresa Ware rtw_m_scorpioides
June Floyd County GA
The inflorescence is a coil of stalked flowers, per Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians (Horn, Cathcart, Hemmerly, & Duhl, 2005).
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Richard and Teresa Ware rtw_m_scorpioides_b
June
Corolla larger than the native, with a short tube and 5 spreading lobes, 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 scorpioides
FAMILY
Boraginaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Myosotis scorpioides
FAMILY
Boraginaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Myosotis scorpioides
SYNONYMOUS WITH
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 161-07-001:
Myosotis scorpioides
FAMILY
Boraginaceae
(?)
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Myosotis palustris
960
Forb
Perennial
Habitat: Wet meadows, streambanks, per Weakley's Flora
Non-native: Europe
Uncommon in NC Mountains (rare elsewhere in GA-NC-SC)
CLICK HERE to see a map, notes, and images from Weakley's Flora of the Southeastern US.
This plant may be causing problems in natural areas outside its native range, according to authorities such as:
LEAVES:
Simple
Alternate
FLOWER:
Spring/Summer
Blue
(with a yellow eye)
5-lobed calyx
5-lobed salverform corolla
Superior ovary
Bisexual
Flowers in terminal, helicoid, false racemes
FRUIT:
Spring/Summer
Schizocarp of specialized mericarps (nutlets)
TO LEARN MORE about this plant, look it up in a good book!
- Newcomb's Wildflower Guide (Newcomb, 1977) p194
- Wild Flowers of NC, 2nd edition (Justice, Bell, & Lindsey, 2005) p213
- Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians (Horn, Cathcart, Hemmerly, & Duhl, 2005) p251
- Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains (Smith, 1998) p136
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