Plantae > Tracheophyta > Magnoliopsida > Boraginales > Boraginaceae > Myosotis > Myosotis asiatica

Myosotis asiatica (alpine forget me not; Asian forget-me-not)

Synonyms: Myosotis alpestris f. eyerdamii; Myosotis alpestris var. alpestris; Myosotis sylvatica f. eyerdamii

Infraspecies

Myosotis asiatica asiatica (Asian forget-me-not)
Myosotis asiatica kolymensis

Attributes

Bee Flower Color [1]  Blue
Flower Color [1]  Blue
Flower Type [3]  Hermaphrodite
Leaf Type [2]  Evergreen
Lifespan [3]  Perennial
Pollinators [3]  Bees, Flies, Lepidoptera
Scent [3]  The flowers are deliciously fragrant in the evening and night time though there is little or no scent in the daytime;
Structure [2]  Herb
Height [3]  8 inches (0.2 m)
Width [3]  12 inches (0.3 m)
Light Preference [4]  Mostly Sunny
Soil Acidity [4]  Neutral
Soil Fertility [4]  Infertile
Soil Moisture [4]  Mostly Dry
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Protected Areas

Emblem of

Alaska

Predators

Longitarsus exoletus <Unverified Name>[5]
Mogulones geographicus[5]

External References

USDA Plant Profile

NatureServe Explorer

Citations

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.
♦ 2Kattge, J. et al. (2011b) TRY - a global database of plant traits Global Change Biology 17:2905-2935
♦ 3Plants For A Future licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License
♦ 4ECOFACT 2a Technical Annex - Ellenberg’s indicator values for British Plants, M O Hill, J O Mountford, D B Roy & R G H Bunce (1999)
♦ 5Biological Records Centre Database of Insects and their Food Plants
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