Myosotis-scorpioides_9

Description:

Myosotis scorpioides L., syn.: Myosotis laxiflora Rchb., Myosotis multiflora Mrat, Myosotis palustris (L.) L., Myosotis palustris subsp. laxiflora (Rchb.) M. Sychowa, Myosotis palustris subsp. multiflora (Mrat) Rouy, Myosotis scorpiodes subsp. multiflora (Mrat) P. Fourn., Myosotis scorpioides subsp. palustris (L.) F. Herm. ..Family: Boraginaceae Juss.EN: Water Forget-Me-Not; DE: Sumpf-VergissmeinnichtSlo.: movirska spominicaDat.: May 31. 2023Lat.: 46.31895 Long.: 13.52010Code: Bot_1529/2023_DSC3235Habitat: Former river bed, now very wet, often flooded, calcareous, alluvial terrain; flat, open, sunny place with little other vegetation; average precipitations ~ 3.000 mm/year, average temperature 8-10 deg C, elevations 350 m (1.150 feet), alpine phytogeographical region. Substratum: sandy alluvial mud. Place: Bovec basin, left bank of river Soa between Bovec and aga, at the place of the former main river bed after river Soa radically changed its flow position in 2018; East Julian Alps, Posoje, Slovenia. Comments (pertain to pictures in Flicker album Myosotis scorpioides): Forget-Me-Not (Myosotis) genus is a difficult one for taxonomists with over 150 taxa described. Just look at the lit of synonyms given above (and there exist many more)! Words scorpioides, laxiflora, multiflora, palustris appear in apparently all possible combinations on species and/or subspecies level! Each author of a name was sincerely convinced that his name is the true one. Most of Myosotis species are, apart of being very beautiful, very variable and many intermediate forms exist.Currently valid name Myosotis scorpioides, also frequently named Myosotis palustris, is also a group (aggregate = agg.) of several very similar plants. But on the level of agg. it is easy to be identified. The calyx should have exclusively strait hairs pointing upwards, lower side of the lower leaves should have strait, conspicuously adpressed hairs pointing toward the tip of the leaf, and above all, the plant loves wet ground, growing many times in shallow water, marches or very close to or on moist banks of streams, rivers or lakes.Ref.:(1) A. Martini et all., Mala Flora Slovenije (Flora of Slovenia - Key) (in Slovenian), Tehnina Zaloba Slovenije (2007), p 541. (2) M.A. Fischer, W. Adler, K. Oswald, Exkursionsflora fr sterreich, Liechtenstein und Sdtirol, LO Landesmuseen, Linz, Austria (2005), p 686.(3) K. Lauber and G. Wagner, Flora Helvetica, 5. Auflage, Haupt (2012), p794.(4) T. Nikoli, Flora Croatica, Vaskularna flora Republike Hrvatske, Vol. 1.,2.,3. Alfa d.d.. Zagreb (2020) p 245,