Myosotis verna

• Authority

  Gleason, Henry A. & Cronquist, Arthur J. 1991. Manual of vascular plants of northeastern United States and adjacent Canada. lxxv + 910 pp.

• Family

  Boraginaceae

• Scientific Name

  Myosotis verna Nutt.

• Description

  Species Description - Annual or winter annual 0.5–4 dm, hirsute-puberulent or hirsute-strigose throughout; lvs 1–5 cm × 2–10 mm, the lowermost mostly oblanceolate and petiolate, the others more oblong or narrowly elliptic and sessile; infl seldom comprising much more than the upper half of the plant, often irregularly leafy-bracteate below; fruiting pedicels erect or suberect, to nearly half as long as the 4–7 mm cal; cal uncinate-hairy below, stiffly ascending-hirsute above, sub-bilabiate, 3 lobes shorter than the other 2; cor white, the limb 1–2 mm wide, not flat; nutlets 1.2–1.5 mm, surpassing the style. Upland woods and fields; Me. to Mich. and S.D., s. to Ga. and Tex.; also B.C. to Oreg. and Ida. Apr.–July. (M. virginica, misapplied)

• Common Names

  early scorpion-grass