Plants of South Eastern New South Wales

Myosotis exarrhena

Flowers. Photographer Richard Hartland, Macedon Ranges, Vic

Flowering plant. Photographer David Francis, Macedon Ranges, Vic

Line drawings. a. flowering branch; typical flower (left), long corolla-tube variant (centre), small-flowered variant (right). S Clark, National Herbarium of Victoria, © 2021 Royal Botanic Gardens Board

Common name

Sweet forget-me-not

Family

Boraginaceae

Where found

Rocky places at higher altitudes. Mainly Kosciuszko National Park, the mountains to the north, and the ACT. Occasional elsewhere.

Notes

Perennial herb to 0.5 m high. Stems hairy. Leaves basal and alternating up the stems, densely hairy with spreading haris, tips pointed or blunt, margins flat. Basal leaves 3.5–10 cm long, 3–13 mm wide, leaves becoming shorter below the flowers. Flowers white or pale blue, 3–13 mm long, 4–6 mm in diameter, tubular, with 5 lobes usually only slightly shorter than the tube. Stamens projecting 1–7 mm from the corolla tube. Style projecting 1–10 mm from the corolla tube.  Lower parts of the calyx densely covered with hooked hairs. Flowers in clusters on one side of the coiled stalk when young, the stalk soon elongating. Flowering: spring–autumn.

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~exarrhena  (accessed 24 January, 2021)