Strict Forget Me Not

To be expected in the northern areas of Pakistan. Perhaps overlooked. Found from 2100-3000 m.

Annual herb up to 30 cm tall. Stems several to many, branched, covered with spreading unequal hairs up to 0.5 mm long. Basal leaves 10-30 x 4-8 mm, oblong to obspathulate, covered on both surfaces with suberect hairs up to 1 mm long. Upper cauline leaves smaller, ovate-lanceolate; upper surface more densely hairy than lower ones. Inflorescence up to 18 cm in fruit, lax. Pedicel up to 2.5 mm long in fruit, not reflexed. Calyx c. 2 mm half cleft in to linear-lanceolate lobes, basal part with slender suberect uncinate hairs, intermixed with short appressed hairs, those on the lobes appressed. Corolla blue, limb 2-3 mm broad, with spreading lobes. Nutlets ± ovate, 1.4 mm long, smooth, shiny, light brown, areola minute.

Distribution: N. Africa, Europe, Turkey, Syria, Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Kashmir, N.W. India.

Fl. Per.: May-June.

Myosotis stricta is a plant species of the genus Myosotis. Common names include strict forget-me-not and blue scorpion grass.