Myosotis arvensis (L.) Hill

• 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 arvensis (L.) Hill

• Description

  Species Description - Biennial or sometimes annual, 1–4 dm, often branched above, strigose to hirsute-puberulent throughout; lvs 1–6 cm × 3–16 mm, the lower mostly oblanceolate, the upper often more oblong or lanceolate; infl slightly if at all longer than the leafy part of the plant; mature pedicels ascending or spreading, equaling or generally surpassing the 3–5 mm cal; cal hirsute-puberulent and shortly uncinate-hispid; cor blue or occasionally white, the limb 2–4 mm wide; nutlets distinctly surpassing the style; 2n=50–54. Native of Eurasia, established in fields and roadsides from Nf. to Minn., s. sometimes to N.H. and W.Va. Summer.

• Common Names

  field scorpion-grass