Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Myosotis australis
Common name
Australian forget-me-not, Austral forget-me-not, Southern forget-me-not
Family
Boraginaceae
Where found
Forest, woodland, and rocky places. Widespread, but no coastal records.
Notes
Annual or perennial herb to 0.5 m high. Stems hairy, with stiff or soft hairs, the bases often surrounded by the persistent remains of old leaves. Leaves alternating up the stems, 1–20 cm long, 2–16 mm wide, variable in shape, hairy with spreading hairs, tips rounded, margins flat. Flowers white or yellowish, or bluish, 3–8 mm in diameter, tubular, with 5 lobes. Stamens hidden inside the corolla tube or protruding only a little. Calyx with numerous hooked hairs on the tube. Flowers in clusters on one side of the coiled stalk when young, the stalk soon elongating. Flowering: spring–summer.
All native plants on unleased land in the ACT are protected.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Myosotis~australis (accessed 24 January, 2021)
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