Myosotis laxa

Bay forget-me-not

Family: Boraginaceae · Type: perennial · Native

Bay forget-me-not is a California native perennial found in northwestern California (excluding northern Coast Ranges), northern and southern Sierra Nevada, and Sacramento Valley in moist soils and shallow water at elevations up to 2,050 meters. Flowering from May to September, this plant produces delicate blue flowers with yellow appendages about 2 to 5 millimeters in diameter. Growing with slender, weak stems 10 to 40 centimeters tall that are often decumbent and slightly hairy, it spreads with a sprawling growth habit. Its leaves range from 1.5 to 8 centimeters long, with basal leaves oblanceolate and stem leaves becoming more oblong to lanceolate. The tiny brown to black nutlets are less than 2 millimeters long and extend beyond the flower's style.

Habitat: Moist soil to generally shallow water

Bloom period: May-Sep

Elevation: < 2050(2400) m

Bioregions: NW (exc NCoRH), n SNH, s SNH, ScV

California counties: El Dorado, Kern, Mendocino, Siskiyou, Tehama, Shasta, Alpine, Mono, Humboldt, Sacramento, Plumas, Butte, Del Norte, Modoc

Data from The California Species Project — 14,000+ California species with verified data from CNPS, CDFW, USFWS, Jepson eFlora, Cal-IPC, and more.