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Bayer Code : myoar

Scientific name: Myosotis arvensis (L.) Hill

Synonym(s) of Sc. name: Myosotis intermedia Link.

Classification: Boraginaceae, Dicotyledonous

Common name: field forget-me-not

Synonym(s) of Common name:

Name per country: DE : Acker-Vergißmeinnicht ; ES : miosotis de los campos ; FR : myosotis des champs ; IT : nontiscordardimé minore ; PT : ; EN : field forget-me-not ; NL : akkervergeet-mij-nietje, NL : blauw porselein ; DK : mark forglemmigej

Biological type: Annual, Biennial

Seed snapshot Seed:

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Seedling snapshot Seedling:

- Cotyledons lengthened, spoon-like.

- Leaves entire, elliptic or ovate, entire-margined.

Adult plant snapshotAdult plant snapshot Adult plant:

- Height: 10-60 cm. Plant hairy.

- Stem erect, stiff, branched.

- Leaves lower in rosette. Leaves lanceolate, attenuate into a petiole, 20-25 mm, with rough bristly hairs. Leaves with an elongate-ovate blade. Cauline leaves more or less acute at the tip.

- Flowers pink at first, then blue in stiff scorpioid cymes, bractless, lengthening. Calyx covered with hairs all hooked at the apex. Corolla 2-5 mm broad with 5 concave lobes.

- Fruits dry indehiscent with very hard walls; 1-seeded.

- Plant melliferous.

- Risk of confusion with the other species of Myosotis .

- Biological type: annual or biennial.

Mistake with: Myosotis

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