forget-me-not (redirected from Forget-me-nots)

forget-me-not: see borage.

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forget-me-not

Woods forget-me-not (Myosotis sylvatica)

(credit: Ingmar Holmasen)

Any of about 50 species of plants that make up the genus Myosotis, in the borage family, native to temperate Eurasia and North America and to mountains of the Old World tropics. Some are favoured as garden plants for their clusters of blue flowers. The woods forget-me-not (M. sylvatica), like most other species, changes colour from pink to blue as the tubular, flaring, five-lobed flower matures.

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forget-me-not

any temperate low-growing plant of the mainly European boraginaceous genus Myosotis, having clusters of small typically blue flowers

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forget-me-not

of Alaska. [Flower Symbolism: Golenpaul, 625]

See : Flower, State