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Myosotis sylvatica

Remutaka Forest Park.<br>Photographer: Jeremy R. Rolfe, Date taken: 19/09/2006, Licence: <a target='_blank' href='https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0'>CC BY</a>. <a class='member-message' href='/nzpcn/why-join-nzpcn/' target='_blank'>Members can view a larger version of this image.</a>

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Common names

garden forget-me-not

Biostatus

Exotic

Conservation status

Not applicable

Structural class

Herbs - Dicotyledons other than Composites

Flower colours

Blue, Yellow

Detailed taxonomy

Genus

Myosotis

Family

Boraginaceae

Authority

Myosotis sylvatica Hoffm.

Endemic genus

Endemic family

Ecology

Year naturalised

1904

Origin

Temperate Eurasia

Other information

Etymology

myosotis: Mouse-eared

sylvatica: From the Latin sylva ‘forest’, meaning growing in the forest

NVS code

The National Vegetation Survey (NVS) Databank is a physical archive and electronic databank containing records of over 94,000 vegetation survey plots - including data from over 19,000 permanent plots. NVS maintains a standard set of species code abbreviations that correspond to standard scientific plant names from the Ngä Tipu o Aotearoa - New Zealand Plants database.

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