forget-me-not: see borage borage , common name for the Boraginaceae, a family of widely distributed herbs and some tropical shrubs or trees characterized by rough or hairy stems, four-part fruits, and usually fragrant blossoms.
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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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Woods forget-me-not (Myosotis sylvatica)
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any temperate low-growing plant of the mainly European boraginaceous genus Myosotis, having clusters of small typically blue flowers
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of Alaska. [Flower Symbolism: Golenpaul, 625]
See : Flower, State
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