Myosotis laxa

Myosotis laxa
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
(unranked):	Angiosperms
(unranked):	Eudicots
(unranked):	Asterids
Order:	(unplaced)
Family:	Boraginaceae
Genus:	Myosotis
Species:	M. laxa
Binomial name
Myosotis laxa Lehm.

Myosotis laxa is a species of forget-me-not known by several common names, including tufted forget-me-not, bay forget-me-not, and small-flowered forget-me-not. It has a circumboreal distribution, occurring throughout northern parts of the Northern Hemisphere. It grows in many types of habitat, including moist and wet areas; it is sometimes aquatic, growing in shallow water.

Henry David Thoreau described Myosotis laxa:

The mouse-ear forget-me-not, Myosotis laxa, has now extended its racemes (?) very much, and hangs over the edge of the brook. It is one of the most interesting minute flowers. It is the more beautiful for being small and unpretending; even flowers must be modest. ^[1]

References

1. ^ Thoreau, Henry David; Emerson, Ralph Waldo (1884), The Writings of Henry David Thoreau, Houghton, Mifflin and company, p. 109, http://books.google.com/?id=_14dAAAAIAAJ 

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