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Myosotis arvensis (field forget-me-not)

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Wikipedia Abstract

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.
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Infraspecies

Attributes

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

Protected Areas

Ecosystems

Predators

Consumers

Parasitized by 
Golovinomyces cynoglossi[7]
Peronospora myosotidis[7]

Citations

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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.
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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