Myosotis laxa, Lehm.

Tutin, T. G., Heywood, V. H., Burges, N. A., Moore, D. M., Valentine, D. H., Walters, S. M. & Webb, D. A., 1972, Flora Europaea. Volume 3. Diapensiacea to Myoporaceae, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press : 116

35. M. laxa Lehm. , Pl. Asperif. 83 (1818)

(AT. Ungulata Lehm. ).

Annual or biennial; stems 20-50 cm, branched from the base, with straight, forwardly-directed, appressed hairs. Leaves up to 8x1-5 cm, lanceolate, extending up to the first flowers. Pedicels at the base of the inflorescence often elongated in fruit, up to 2-5 cm, and deflexed. Calyx divided to j or less, up to 8 mm in fruit, often deciduous; teeth narrowly triangular; branches of the main veins arising at the base of the tube. Limb of corolla up to 5 mm in diameter, bright blue, more or less flat. Nutlets up to 2x1-4 mm, dark brown, ovoid, obtuse, usually truncate at the base, with a spongy appendage on the attachment-area. Wet places. M ost o f Europe, but rarer in the south. All except Az BI Cr Is Sa Sb Si.