| Myosotis palustris L. | |||
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| Family | Boraginaceae — APG family: Boraginaceae | ||
| Synonyms | Myosotis scorpioides L. | ||
| Description | More or less rhizomatous; stem decumbent to erect, angular, more or less hairy; lower leaves oblong-lanceolate to obovate-lanceolate, obtuse, attenuate at base, with scattered, appressed hairs; cymes ebracteate; fruiting pedicels 1-2 times as long as calyx; calyx appressed-hairy with triangular teeth, a third to a quarter the length of the calyx; corolla blue, with emarginate lobes and tube longer than calyx. | ||
| Ecology | Occasionally escaped from cultivation. Described from Europe. |
This is a digital representation of Eric Hultén’s ‘Flora of Alaska and Neighboring Territories: A Manual of the Vascular Plants’, which was published by Stanford University Press in 1968. The book was digitized by C. Webb (at UAMN) as part of the Flora of Alaska project, with funding by the US NSF (Grant 1759964 to Ickert-Bond & Webb), and with permission of Stanford University Press. Data and images © 1968 Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Jr. Univ. Usage licence: Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 4.0. NB: You may find OCR errors; please refer to the hard-copy if in doubt.