Flora-Fauna

Myosotis laxa subsp. cespitosa (Schultz) Hyl. ex Nordh.

First published in Norsk Fl. (Oslo): 529 (1940).

(Nouvelle Flore du Liban et de la Syrie, vol. 3, p. 85, Pl. XLIV, 1–2; 1983)

Description

Synonyms: Myosotis cespitosa Schultz, spelled M. caespitosa in Mouterde.

Life-form & habit: Herb 20–30 cm tall, with an erect, rounded stem and appressed hairs.

Leaves: Almost glabrous, oblong to tongue-shaped, narrowed at the base.

Inflorescence & flowers: Inflorescence becoming elongated and loose, more or less leafy. Flower stalks long and somewhat reflexed. Calyx with appressed hairs and five lobes, bell-shaped and open after flowering. Corolla blue, 3–6 mm across. Style very short.

Fruit: Broadly egg-shaped nutlets.

Flowering and habitat

Phenology: May–July.

Habitat & elevation: Water margins, flooded places and very wet sandstone.

Distribution

Lebanese distribution: Wet sandstone between Sannine and Kneisse, Beskinta and the Ammiq pond.

Syrian distribution: Ain Bader near Tell Jeni, and between Nisibe and Jabal Sinjar.

Recorded locations: Sannine.

Native range: Albania, Algeria, Altay, Amur, Austria, Baltic States, Belarus, Belgium, Bulgaria, Buryatiya, Central European Russia, China North-Central, China South-Central, Chita, Corse, Czechia-Slovakia, Denmark, East European Russia, Finland, France, Føroyar, Germany, Great Britain, Greece, Hungary, Inner Mongolia, Ireland, Irkutsk, Italy, Kamchatka, Kazakhstan, Khabarovsk, Kirgizstan, Krasnoyarsk, Krym, Kuril Is., Lebanon-Syria, Manchuria, Mongolia, Morocco, Nepal, Netherlands, North Caucasus, North European Russia, Northwest European Russia, Norway, NW. Balkan Pen., Pakistan, Palestine, Poland, Portugal, Primorye, Romania, Sakhalin, South European Russia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Tadzhikistan, Transcaucasus, Tunisia, Tuva, Türkiye, Türkiye-in-Europe, Ukraine, Uzbekistan, West Himalaya, West Siberia, Xinjiang, Yakutiya and Yemen.

Introduced into: New South Wales, New Zealand North, New Zealand South, Tasmania and Victoria.