Myosotis laxa subsp. caespitosa
(Schultz) Hyl. ex Nordh. Water Forget-me-notAnnual or biennial herb, 10–35 cm high, erect or ascending; branches with sparse to moderately dense appressed hairs. Leaves moderately hairy, apex rounded, margins flat; rosette leaves narrow-obovate to oblong, 2–8 cm long, 4–15 mm wide; cauline leaves more or less stem-clasping. Inflorescence axis with sparse appressed antrorse hairs. Flowers on pedicels to c. 10 mm long; sepals 2–4.5 mm long, acute to obtuse, connate in basal half to two-thirds, not elongating markedly with age, sparsely to moderately appressed-hairy; corolla c. 2.5 mm long, about as long as sepals, glabrous, pale blue, tube longer than lobes; stamens and style included in corolla-tube. Mericarps c. 1.5 mm long, pale to dark brown. Flowers Oct.–Apr.
VVP, GipP, OtP, WaP, Gold, CVU, DunT, NIS, EGU, HSF, HNF, OtR, Strz, VAlp. Also naturalised NSW, ACT, Tas. Native to Europe. A weed of stream banks and other moist places.
Jeanes, J.A. (1999). Boraginaceae. In: Walsh, N.G.; Entwisle, T.J., Flora of Victoria Vol. 4, Cornaceae to Asteraceae, pp. 387–411. Inkata Press, Melbourne.
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