Myosotis discolor
Pers. Yellow-and-blue Forget-me-notAnnual or biennial herb, 10–30 cm high, usually erect; branches with dense spreading hairs. Leaves densely hairy, apex rounded, margins flat; rosette leaves oblanceolate, 1–5 cm long, 2–10 mm wide; cauline leaves lanceolate. Inflorescence axis with appressed antrorse hairs. Flowers subsessile; pedicels elongating to c. 4 mm in fruit; sepals 2–5 mm long, acute, connate in basal third or less, elongating with age, lower parts with scattered hooked hairs, lobes narrow-triangular to linear; corolla c. 4 mm long, exceeding the sepals, glabrous, white or pale yellow, becoming blue, tube much longer than lobes; stamens and style included in corolla-tube, style about as long as stamens. Mericarps c. 1 mm long, dark brown. Flowers Sep.–Jan.
Wim, GleP, Brid, VVP, VRiv, GipP, OtP, WaP, Gold, CVU, GGr, DunT, NIS, EGU, WPro, HSF, HNF, OtR, Strz, VAlp. Also naturalised WA, NSW, ACT, Tas. Treated as native in SA. Native to Europe, north-west Africa and western Asia. A widespread weed, mainly of moist montane habitats.
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.