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Myosotis lithuanica (forget-me-not; true forget me not; true forget-me-not; yelloweye forget-me-not)

Synonyms: Myosotis palustris lithuanica

Attributes

Bloom Period [1]  Mid Spring
Drought Tolerance [1]  None
Fire Tolerance [1]  Low
Flower Type [2]  Hermaphrodite
Frost Free Days [1]  4 months 10 days
Fruit/Seed Abundance [1]  Medium
Fruit/Seed Begin [1]  Spring
Fruit/Seed End [1]  Summer
Growth Form [1]  Rhizomatous
Growth Period [1]  Spring, Summer
Growth Rate [1]  Moderate
Leaf Type [2]  Evergreen
Lifespan [2]  Perennial
Pollinators [2]  Bees, Flies, Lepidoptera
Propagation [1]  Container, Seed, Sprig
Regrowth Rate [1]  Moderate
Root Depth [1]  8 inches (20 cm)
Seed Spread Rate [1]  Rapid
Seed Vigor [1]  Medium
Seeds Per [1]  225000 / lb (496040 / kg)
Shape/Orientation [1]  Decumbent
Structure [4]  Herb
Vegetative Spread Rate [1]  Moderate
Flower Color [1]  Blue
Foliage Color [1]  Green
Fruit Color [1]  Brown
Flower Conspicuous [1]  Yes
Height [2]  12 inches (0.3 m)
Width [2]  24 inches (0.6 m)
Hardiness Zone Minimum [1]  USDA Zone: 3 Low Temperature: -40 F° (-40 C°) → -30 F° (-34.4 C°)
Light Preference [3]  Mostly Sunny
Soil Acidity [3]  Moderate Acid
Soil Fertility [3]  Intermediate
Soil Moisture [3]  Wet
Water Use [1]  High
Screening - Summer [1]  Dense
Screening - Winter [1]  Porous
View Plants For A Future Record : Myosotis lithuanica

Protected Areas

Ecosystems

Predators

Agromyza myosotidis[5]
Ethmia funerella[6]
Oedemera virescens[7]

Providers

Pollinated by 
Oedemera virescens[7]

External References

USDA Plant Profile

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1USDA Plants Database, U. S. Department of Agriculture
♦ 2Plants For A Future licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License
♦ 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
♦ 5Biological Records Centre Database of Insects and their Food Plants
♦ 6HOSTS - a Database of the World's Lepidopteran Hostplants Gaden S. Robinson, Phillip R. Ackery, Ian J. Kitching, George W. Beccaloni AND Luis M. Hernández
♦ 7Ecology of Commanster
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