Myosotis vernaNutt.

spring forget-me-not

WFO wfo-0001215507 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Myosotis verna, photographed by jfox16
fig. a jfox16, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-04-07 / obs. 188207849
Myosotis verna, photographed by Thomas Koffel
fig. b Thomas Koffel, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 78623315
Myosotis verna, photographed by Thomas Koffel
fig. c Thomas Koffel, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 74612452
Myosotis verna, photographed by Sam Kieschnick
fig. d Sam Kieschnick, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 3232532
Myosotis verna, photographed by Jennifer Harris
fig. e Jennifer Harris, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 16332928
Myosotis verna, photographed by Jennifer Harris
fig. f Jennifer Harris, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 38374313
Myosotis verna, photographed by Thomas Koffel
fig. g Thomas Koffel, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 127713235
Myosotis verna, photographed by Brand R
fig. h Brand R, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 195837619

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Native range 46 botanical countries

Regions where Myosotis verna is native: Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, British Columbia, California, Connecticut, Delaware, District of Columbia, Georgia, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Oklahoma, Ontario, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Québec, Rhode I., South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Vermont, Virginia, Washington, West Virginia, Wisconsin, Wyoming AlabamaArizonaArkansasBritish ColumbiaCaliforniaConnecticutGeorgiaIdahoIllinoisIndianaIowaKansasKentuckyLouisianaMaineMarylandMassachusettsMichiganMinnesotaMississippiMissouriMontanaNebraskaNew HampshireNew JerseyNew YorkNorth CarolinaOhioOklahomaOntarioOregonPennsylvaniaQuébecSouth CarolinaSouth DakotaTennesseeTexasVermontVirginiaWashingtonWest VirginiaWisconsinWyoming DelawareDistrict of ColumbiaRhode I.
Native distribution of Myosotis verna, after Kew’s World Checklist of Vascular Plants. Introduced, extinct and doubtful records are excluded, so this is where the plant is from, not everywhere it now grows. Regions too small to draw at this scale are marked with a dot.
RegionTDWG codeContinent
Alabama ALA NORTHERN AMERICA
Arizona ARI
Arkansas ARK
British Columbia BRC
California CAL
Connecticut CNT
Delaware DEL
District of Columbia WDC
Georgia GEO
Idaho IDA
Illinois ILL
Indiana INI
Iowa IOW
Kansas KAN
Kentucky KTY
Louisiana LOU
Maine MAI
Maryland MRY
Massachusetts MAS
Michigan MIC
Minnesota MIN
Mississippi MSI
Missouri MSO
Montana MNT
Nebraska NEB
New Hampshire NWH
New Jersey NWJ
New York NWY
North Carolina NCA
Ohio OHI
Oklahoma OKL
Ontario ONT
Oregon ORE
Pennsylvania PEN
Québec QUE
Rhode I. RHO
South Carolina SCA
South Dakota SDA
Tennessee TEN
Texas TEX
Vermont VER
Virginia VRG
Washington WAS
West Virginia WVA
Wisconsin WIS
Wyoming WYO

Region boundaries approximated from Natural Earth (public domain) and mapped to TDWG World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions (WGSRPD) level-3 botanical countries (Brummitt 2001). Indicative, not the official WGSRPD geometry.

Where it actually grows measured, from 347 observations

Condition 5th percentile Median 95th percentile
Coldest month, mean daily low -11.3 °C -2.7 °C 3.0 °C
Warmest month, mean daily high 26.2 °C 31.1 °C 34.0 °C
Annual rainfall 871 mm 1,132 mm 1,403 mm
Rainfall in the driest quarter 82 mm 212 mm 283 mm

It is found where winters bring hard frost. This is not care advice and it is not a forecast. It is a measurement: we sampled the climate at every one of the 347 research-grade observations of Myosotis verna that carry a coordinate, and this is the range those places actually span. The 5th and 95th percentiles are used rather than the minimum and maximum, because a single cultivated specimen in a heated conservatory should not widen a tropical plant's range to the Arctic.

This is not a hardiness zone. A USDA zone is the average annual extreme minimum temperature. The figure above is the mean daily minimum of the coldest month, which is a different quantity and is typically far warmer. Reading one as the other would place a plant several zones too warm, so we do not publish a hardiness zone, because we do not have one.

Also published as 5 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

  • Eritrichium pampeanum Speg.
  • Lycopsis virginica L.
  • Myosotis inflexa Engelm.
  • Myosotis versicolor var. americana DC.
  • Myosotis virginica (L.) Britton, Sterns & Poggenb.

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.
  3. Wikidata. common name (P1843), joined on the World Flora Online identifier (P7715). CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-13.
  4. Kew, World Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP v16). native distribution by TDWG level-3 botanical country, and life form. CC BY 3.0. Retrieved 2026-06-04.

We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice and no toxicity claim, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite.