Water forget-me-not
Myosotis scorpioides L.
- light
- Sun–part
- water
- Plenty
- tall
- 23 cm
- wide
- 27 cm
Boraginaceae
Also called True forget-me-not, Marsh Forget-Me-Not
When it flowers
Not known yet in the tropics: too few flowering observations to read a season from.
Read from iNaturalist photographs of it in flower. A month counts at 50% of the best month's flowering share (smoothed over three months) and 10% of its flowering count, from at least 100 flowering observations in the band.
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Something wrong with it?About it
- Grows as
- PerennialKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- TemperateKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- Europe to Siberia and W. HimalayaKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Light
- Full sun to part shade (3 h or more)Read from NC State Extension, one source
- Height
- 15 cm to 30 cmRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Spread
- 23 cm to 30 cmRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Water
- Plenty: wet or constantly moistRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Flowers
- White, blueRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Coldest it survives
- -28.9 °C (USDA zone 5a)Read from NC State Extension, one source
Not known yet: heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (12)
- root
- MYOSCO, gloymmegei, mýrihoylús
- Finnish
- luhtalemmikki
- German
- Sumpf-Vergissmeinnicht, Sumpf-Vergißmeinnicht, Myosotis palustris
- Russian
- Незабудка болотная
- French
- myosotis des marais, Myosotis des marais
- Czech
- pomněnka bahenní
- Dutch
- Moerasvergeet-mij-nietje, Moeras- / Weidevergeet-mij-nietje, Moeras- en Weidevergeet-mij-nietje
- Japanese
- シンワスレナグサ, ワスレナグサ
- Swedish
- Äkta förgätmigej, Blå ögontröst, Fansögon
- Lithuanian
- Pelkinė neužmirštuolė
- Danish
- Eng-forglemmigej, Eng-Forglemmigej
- Spanish
- nomeolvides de agua, Nomeolvides de agua
Where this comes from
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC0-1.0 (observation counts)
- Wikidata, read 2026-10-25, CC0-1.0
- Kew's checklist, read 2026-10-24, CC-BY-4.0
- NC State Extension, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-25, CC BY-SA 4.0
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY-SA
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- 3D model: Myosotis scorpioides (built for Vanagrha) by Vanagrha, own
A fact “checked by a majority of its sources” was settled by a vote of the pages it was read from, not by a person reading it; one marked “one source” rests on that page alone. Anything else not marked checked has not been checked yet. Where nothing is known, the page says so rather than guess.