Forget-me-not, rarely flowering , or rarely , also strofistostam rare-flowered ( Latin Myosotis sparsiflóra ) is an annual herb, a species of the genus Forget-me-not ( Myosotis ) of the family Burachnikovye ( Boraginaceae ). Some researchers stand out in the genus Strofiostoma ( Strophiostoma ).
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| The kingdom : | Green plants |
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Myosotis sparsiflora JCMikan ex Pohl , 1806 |
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Botanical illustration by Jacob Sturm from
Deutschlands Flora in Abbildungen , 1796
Annual herb 5-20 cm, sometimes up to 40 cm tall. Stem is recumbent or erect, often branched at the base, brittle, juicy, covered with soft hairs that are distant to the base. The leaves are also covered with soft hairs, the lower leaves are oblong-lanceolate to lanceolate, on a broad petiole, the upper leaves are oblong-elliptical, sessile.
Flowers in very loose, poorly distinguished leafy racemes, one each in the axils of the upper leaves (several upper flowers without bracts), on thin pedicels , in the lower flowers deviating to the base of the plant. Calyx up to 1.5 mm long, after flowering extends to 5-6 mm, covered with hooked curved hairs, two-thirds or more incised into lanceolate lobes. The rim is wheel-shaped, 2–3 mm in diameter, the five blades of the limb are slightly concave. Painted in pale blue or almost white.
Fruits - nuts (four per flower) narrowly ovoid, 2 mm long, bare and smooth, brown in color, with a white appendage. Spread by ants ( mirmekohor ).
Diploid set of chromosomes - 2n = 18.
Eastern and Central European view. Occurs throughout the European part of Russia , as well as in the Caucasus , very rarely in the south of Western Siberia . Described from the Czech Republic .
