Plantae > Tracheophyta > Magnoliopsida > Boraginales > Boraginaceae > Myosotis > Myosotis arvensisMyosotis arvensis (field forget-me-not)Synonyms: Myosotis amosii; Myosotis arvensis f. albiflorum; Myosotis arvensis f. dagestanica; Myosotis caballeroi; Myosotis intermedia; Myosotis intermedia var. aperta; Myosotis monticola; Myosotis pentheri; Myosotis scorpioides arvensis Myosotis arvensis or Field Forget-me-not is a herbaceous annual to short lived perennial flowering plant in the family Boraginaceae. Stace describes this plant as having the following characteristics: \n* Upright, to 40 cm; softly hairy, with hairs at more-or-less right-angles to the stem. \n* Flowers grey-blue, 3-5mm across, saucer shaped in profile; sepal tube with hooked hairs; April–October. \n* Mature fruit dark brown, shiny. \n* Mature calyx on spreading stalks longer than sepal tube; calyx teeth conceal the ripe fruit. \n* Basal leaves stalked, in a rosette; upper leaves not stalked. \n* Generally found on open, well drained ground; common throughout the British Isles. |
Bee Flower Color [1] | Blue-Green | Flower Color [1] | Blue |  | Height [2] | 16 inches (.4 m) |  | Lifespan [2] | Annual | Structure [4] | Herb |  | Light Preference [3] | Mostly Sunny | Soil Acidity [3] | Moderate Acid | Soil Fertility [3] | Intermediate | Soil Moisture [3] | Moist |
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Name |
IUCN Category |
Area acres |
Location |
Species |
Website |
Climate |
Land Use |
Avon Gorge Woodlands |
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376 |
England, United Kingdom |
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Belovezhskaya Pushcha Biosphere Reserve National Park |
II |
218515 |
Belarus |
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Berwyn a Mynyddoedd de Clwyd/ Berwyn and South Clwyd Mountains |
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67265 |
Wales, United Kingdom |
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Bialowieza National Park |
II |
11126 |
Poland |
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Black Wood of Rannoch |
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2720 |
Scotland, United Kingdom |
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Bruce Peninsula National Park |
II |
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Ontario, Canada |
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Caithness and Sutherland Peatlands |
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354692 |
Scotland, United Kingdom |
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Carpathian Biosphere Reserve |
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144772 |
Ukraine |
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Colonial National Historic Park National Historical Park |
V |
9316 |
Virginia, United States |
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Dornoch Firth and Morrich More |
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21499 |
Scotland, United Kingdom |
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Dorset Heaths (Purbeck and Wareham) and Studland Dunes |
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5491 |
England, United Kingdom |
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Fernkloof Nature Reserve |
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3417 |
Western Cape, South Africa |
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Galichia Gora Zapovednik |
Ia |
568 |
Lipetsk, Russia |
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Gateway National Recreation Area |
V |
1807 |
New Jersey, United States |
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Georgian Bay Islands National Park |
II |
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Ontario, Canada |
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Glacier National Park |
II |
953799 |
Montana, United States |
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Great Swamp National Wildlife Refuge |
VI |
3161 |
New Jersey, United States |
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Gwaii Haanas National Park Reserve |
II |
366714 |
British Columbia, Canada |
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Hartslock Wood |
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85 |
England, United Kingdom |
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Humber Estuary |
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90582 |
England, United Kingdom |
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Ingleborough Complex |
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14256 |
England, United Kingdom |
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Isle of Rum National Nature Reserve |
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Scotland, United Kingdom |
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Isles of Scilly Complex |
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66350 |
England, United Kingdom |
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Kavkazskiy Biosphere Reserve |
Ia |
692723 |
Krasnodar, Karachay-Cherkessia, Adygea, Russia |
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Khopersky Zapovednik |
Ia |
47103 |
Russia |
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Limestone Coast of South West Wales/ Arfordir Calchfaen de Orllewin Cymru |
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3940 |
Wales, United Kingdom |
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Luce Bay and Sands |
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120487 |
Scotland, United Kingdom |
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Lyme Bay and Torbay |
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77215 |
England, United Kingdom |
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Migneint–Arenig–Dduallt |
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49343 |
Wales, United Kingdom |
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Moorfoot Hills |
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21001 |
Scotland, United Kingdom |
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Morecambe Bay |
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151985 |
England, United Kingdom |
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Niagara Escarpment Biosphere Reserve |
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470167 |
Ontario, Canada |
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North Norfolk Coast |
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7926 |
England, United Kingdom |
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North Pennine Moors |
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254789 |
England, United Kingdom |
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North York Moors |
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108930 |
England, United Kingdom |
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Okskiy Biosphere Reserve |
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190748 |
Russia |
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Palava Protected Landscape Area |
V |
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Czech Republic |
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Parco Del Somma-Vesuvio e Miglio D'Oro National Park |
II |
33648 |
Italy |
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Prince Edward Island National Park |
II |
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Prince Edward Island, Canada |
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Prioksko-Terrasny Biosphere Reserve |
IV |
12219 |
Moscow, Russia |
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Reserva de la Biosfera de Urdaibai Biosphere Reserve |
V |
1777 |
Spain |
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Saint Lawrence Islands National Park |
II |
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Ontario, Canada |
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Salisbury Plain |
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52975 |
England, United Kingdom |
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Severn Estuary/ Môr Hafren |
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182155 |
England/Wales, United Kingdom |
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Shingle Islands |
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192 |
Scotland, United Kingdom |
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South Wight Maritime |
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49082 |
England, United Kingdom |
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Sunart |
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25320 |
Scotland, United Kingdom |
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Taynish National Nature Reserve |
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Scotland, United Kingdom |
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Terra Nova National Park |
IV |
125894 |
Newfoundland, Canada |
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The Wash and North Norfolk Coast |
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266284 |
England, United Kingdom |
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Thorne Moor |
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4718 |
England, United Kingdom |
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Tingon |
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1407 |
Scotland, United Kingdom |
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Tsentral'no-Chernozemny Biosphere Reserve |
Ia |
13064 |
Kursk, Russia |
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Tsentral'no-Lesnoy Biosphere Reserve |
Ia |
62630 |
Russia |
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Tsentral'no-Sibirskiy Biosphere Reserve |
Ia |
2521510 |
Krasnoyarsk, Russia |
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Voronezhskiy Biosphere Reserve |
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95835 |
Russia |
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Wind Cave National Park |
II |
29471 |
South Dakota, United States |
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Yoho National Park |
II |
317576 |
British Columbia, Canada |
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Zhuvintas Zapovednik |
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18223 |
Lithuania |
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Attributes / relations provided by ♦ 1Arnold SEJ, Faruq S, Savolainen V, McOwan PW, Chittka L, 2010 FReD: The Floral Reflectance Database — A Web Portal for Analyses of Flower Colour. PLoS ONE 5(12): e14287. ♦ 2PLANTATT - Attributes of British and Irish Plants: Status, Size, Life History, Geography and Habitats, M. O. Hill, C. D. Preston & D. B. Roy, Biological Records Centre, NERC Centre for Ecology and Hydrology (2004) ♦ 3ECOFACT 2a Technical Annex - Ellenberg’s indicator values for British Plants, M O Hill, J O Mountford, D B Roy & R G H Bunce (1999) ♦ 4Kattge, J. et al. (2011b) TRY - a global database of plant traits Global Change Biology 17:2905-2935 ♦ 5Ecology of Commanster♦ 6Biological Records Centre Database of Insects and their Food Plants♦ 7Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics. |
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0
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