Scattered forget-me-nots

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Scattered forget-me-nots
Scattered-flowered forget-me-not (Myosotis sparsiflora), illustration

Scattered-flowered forget-me-not ( Myosotis sparsiflora ), illustration

Systematics
Euasterids I
Family : Boraginaceae (Boraginaceae)
Subfamily : Boraginoideae
Tribe : Myosotideae
Genre : Forget-Me-Not ( Myosotis )
Type : Scattered forget-me-nots
Scientific name
Myosotis sparsiflora
JCMikan ex Pohl

The scattered-flowered forget-me-not ( Myosotis sparsiflora ), also called loose-flowered forget-me-not , is a species of the forget-me-not genus ( Myosotis ) within the predatory family (Boraginaceae).

description

The scattered-flowered forget-me-not is an annual herbaceous plant that reaches heights of 10 to 30, rarely up to 40 centimeters. The stem is slack, prostrate or ascending, fresh green, sparsely hairy, angular and fragile. The leaves are spatulate, 2 to 6 inches long and 0.5 to 1.5 inches wide.

The flowering period is from April to May. Usually about 7 (3 to 13) flowers are in very loose, double coils, each coil has two to three leaf-like bracts. The flower stalks stretch after the anthesis from 1 to 3 to 6 to 8 millimeters in length and bend back. The hermaphroditic flowers are radial symmetry and five-fold with a double flower envelope . The short corolla tube is white, its edge is pink and it later turns sky blue.

The cup is open at the fruit time. The fruit is greatly enlarged, the Klausen each have a white oil body.

The flowering period is April to June.

The number of chromosomes is 2n = 18.

Scattered forget-me-nots ( Myosotis sparsiflora )

ecology

The scattered forget-me-not is a therophyte .

Occurrence

The main area of the scattered forget-me-not is in Eastern Europe and Asia . In Central Europe it occurs only rarely in the lowlands and in the low mountain ranges east of the Elbe , as well as in Lower Austria , Burgenland and Styria , in the Bavarian Forest it occurs sporadically.

The absent-minded forget-me-not thrives best on nutritious , moist, muddy loam or clay soils . It inhabits light floodplain forests and their edges, elm hillside forests and fresh to moist floodplain bushes. It rises to altitudes of 300 meters. It is a character species of the Alliarion association in Central Europe .

literature

  • Otto Schmeil, Jost Fitschen (greeting), Siegmund Seybold: The flora of Germany and the neighboring countries. A book for identifying all wild and frequently cultivated vascular plants. 95th completely revised u. exp. Edition. Quelle & Meyer, Wiebelsheim 2011, ISBN 978-3-494-01498-2 .
  • Eckehart J. Jäger (ed.): Excursion flora from Germany. Vascular plants: baseline. Founded by Werner Rothmaler . 20th, revised and expanded edition. Spektrum Akademischer Verlag, Heidelberg 2011, ISBN 978-3-8274-1606-3 .
  • Henning Haeupler , Thomas Muer: picture atlas of the fern and flowering plants of Germany (= the fern and flowering plants of Germany. Volume 2). 2nd, corrected and enlarged edition. Published by the Federal Agency for Nature Conservation. Ulmer, Stuttgart 2007, ISBN 978-3-8001-4990-2 .
  • Dietmar Aichele, Heinz-Werner Schwegler: The flowering plants of Central Europe. 2nd Edition. Volume 5: Swan flower plants to duckweed plants, Franckh-Kosmos, Stuttgart 2000, ISBN 3-440-08048-X .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e Myosotis sparsiflora JC Mikan ex Pohl, Scattered forget-me-nots. In: FloraWeb.de.
  2. ↑ a b c Erich Oberdorfer : Plant-sociological excursion flora for Germany and neighboring areas . With the collaboration of Angelika Schwabe and Theo Müller. 8th, heavily revised and expanded edition. Eugen Ulmer, Stuttgart (Hohenheim) 2001, ISBN 3-8001-3131-5 , pp.  783 .

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