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Accession Data:

Myosotis scorpioides L.

  • Common Name: Forget-me-not
  • Family: Boraginaceae Juss.

  • Country of Origin: Europe
  • Habitat: moist areas near streams & ponds

  • USDA Zone: 3a-8b

Accession Data:

  • Accession # 201700027
  • Source: volunteer in Dianella ensifolia (2300)
  • Accession Date: 04-14-2017
  • Bench: 2315 - Lily Pond
    • Currently: active - healthy
    • Qty: 3 confirmed on 04-16-2025

Classification:

  • Division: Magnoliophyta
  • Class: Magnoliopsida
  • SubClass: euasterid I
  • Order: Boraginales
  • SubOrder:
  • Family: Boraginaceae
  • SubFamily: Boraginoideae
  • Tribe: Eritrichieae
  • SubTribe:

Flowering Data:

This accession has been observed in bloom on:
YearJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
2025
2024
2023
2022
2021
2020
2019
2018
2017

References (internal):

  • Type Species
  • EEB Greenhouse Holdings native to: Denmark / Finland / Great Britain / Iceland / Ireland / Norway / Sweden / Austria / Belgium / Czechoslovakia / Germany / Hungary / Netherlands / Poland / Switzerland / France / Albania / Bulgaria / Greece / Italy / Romania / Yugoslavia / Belarus / Baltic States / Krym / East European Russia / Ukraine / Chita / Irkutsk / Krasnoyarsk / West Siberia / North Caucasus / Mongolia

References (external):

  1. The Plant List (2013). Version 1.1. Last accessed on Friday, May 05, 2017.
  2. Myosotis scorpioides at Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Last accessed on Friday, May 05, 2017.
  3. ARS-GRIN Taxonomy. Last accessed on Tuesday, 28 May, 2019.

data regenerated on Wed, 16 Apr 2025 13:39:03 -0400 [bcm v4.0]

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Current Accessions in the Boraginaceae

Subfamily Boraginoideae
Tribe Boragineae

  • Anchusa azurea
  • Symphytum officinale

Subfamily Boraginoideae
Tribe Eritrichieae

  • Myosotis scorpioides

Subfamily Boraginoideae
Tribe Lithospermeae

  • Echium strictum
  • Echium wildprettii

Subfamily Cordioideae

  • Cordia dichotoma

Subfamily Heliotropioideae

  • Heliotropium arborescens Alba
W/C = Wild Collected
= indicates flowering in past 14 days
= images available for this accession
= map available for this accession
= accession added within past 90 days
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