Blue-eyed-Mary
Omphalodes verna Moench
- light
- Part sun
- water
- Medium
- tall
- 25 cm
- wide
- 30 cm
Boraginaceae
Also called Creeping Navelwort
Formerly Cynoglossum omphaloides, Cynoglossum vernale, Omphalium vernum, Omphalodes omphaloides, and 2 more
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
- SE. Alps to N. Appennini and C. RomaniaKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Light
- Part shade (3 to 6 h)Read from RHS, one source
- Height
- 20 cm to 30 cmRead from RHS and Wikipedia, checked by a majority of its sourcesBacked by both sources. Sources differ: RHS 0.1–0.5 m; Wikipedia 20–30 cm
- Spread
- 10 cm to 51 cmRead from RHS, one source
- Water
- Average: moist, well drainedRead from RHS, one source
- Coldest it survives
- -20 °C (USDA zone 6b)Read from RHS, one source
Not known yet: heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (12)
- German
- Frühlings-Nabelnüsschen, Großblüten-Nabelnüsschen, Gedenkemein
- Czech
- pupkovec jarní
- Swedish
- ormöga
- Danish
- Vår-kærminde
- Estonian
- kevad-nabaseemnik
- French
- Petite bourrache
- Norwegian Bokmål
- vårkjærminne
- Finnish
- kevätkaihonkukka
- Lithuanian
- Pavasarinis poraitis
- Polish
- Ułudka wiosenna
- Japanese
- ハナルリソウ
- Dutch
- Vroeg vergeet-mij-nietje
Where this comes from
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-26, CC0-1.0 (observation counts)
- Wikidata, read 2026-10-25, CC0-1.0
- Kew's checklist, read 2026-10-24, CC-BY-4.0
- RHS, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikipedia, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-25, CC BY 4.0
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-26, CC BY
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-26, CC BY
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-26, CC BY
- 3D model: Omphalodes verna (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.