Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Eudicots: Core Eudicots: Asterids: Lamiids: Boraginales? order assignment uncertain
WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Myosotis macrosperma
FAMILY
Boraginaceae
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Read more about Bigseed Forget-me-not at Vascular Plants of North Carolina.
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Myosotis macrosperma
FAMILY
Boraginaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Myosotis macrosperma
INCLUDED WITHIN Great Plains Flora Association (1986)
Myosotis verna
SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 161-07-004:
Myosotis macrosperma FAMILY Boraginaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Myosotis macrosperma
COMMON NAME:
Bigseed Forget-me-not, Scorpion-grass, Largeseed Forget-me-not
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USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / USDA Wetland flora: Field office illustrated guide pnd_myma_002_lvd
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JK Marlow jkm170408_509
April Laurens County SC
Sumter National Forest: Tyger Ranger District
Flowers only 0.12" wide, in tight helical racemes at branch ends, per Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians (Horn, Cathcart, Hemmerly, & Duhl, 2005).
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JK Marlow jkm170408_546
April Newberry County SC
Sumter National Forest: Tyger Ranger District
Flower stalks spread outward as fruits mature, per Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians (Horn, Cathcart, Hemmerly, & Duhl, 2005).
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JK Marlow jkm250429_0144
April Greenville County SC
Tall Pines Wildlife Management Area
Corolla white. Fruiting pedicels divergent; inflorescence internodes usually longer than 10mm, per Weakley's Flora (2025).
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JK Marlow jkm250429_0146
April Greenville County SC
Tall Pines Wildlife Management Area
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JK Marlow jkm210507_0020
May Greenville County SC
Blackwell Heritage Preserve
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JK Marlow jkm210507_0020b
May Greenville County SC
Blackwell Heritage Preserve
Stem leaves sessile, the lower spatulate, the upper elliptic and smaller, per Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians (Horn, Cathcart, Hemmerly, & Duhl, 2005).
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JK Marlow jkm210507_0021
May Greenville County SC
Blackwell Heritage Preserve
WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Myosotis macrosperma
FAMILY
Boraginaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Myosotis macrosperma
FAMILY
Boraginaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Myosotis macrosperma
INCLUDED WITHIN
Great Plains Flora Association (1986)
Myosotis verna
SYNONYMOUS WITH
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 161-07-004:
Myosotis macrosperma
FAMILY
Boraginaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Myosotis macrosperma
3443
Forb
Annual/Biennial
Habitat: Bottomland forests and alluvial fields, probably associated with nutrient-rich soils, per Weakley's Flora
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
Common in Piedmont (rare in NC Mountains) (uncommon elsewhere in GA-NC-SC)
CLICK HERE to see a map, notes, and images from Weakley's Flora of the Southeastern US.
LEAVES:
Simple
Alternate & basal
FLOWER:
Spring
White
5-lobed calyx
5-lobed salverform corolla
Superior ovary
Bisexual
Flowers in terminal, helicoid, false racemes
FRUIT:
Spring
Schizocarp of specialized mericarps (nutlets)
TO LEARN MORE about this plant, look it up in a good book!
- Wildflowers of the Atlantic Southeast (Cotterman, Waitt, & Weakley, 2019) p116
- Field Guide to the Wildflowers of Georgia (Chafin, 2016) p132
- Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians (Horn, Cathcart, Hemmerly, & Duhl, 2005) p251
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