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Myosotis sylvatica HOFFM.

Fam.: Boraginaceae / Borrage Fam.

Genus: Myosotis L.

Authors:
	HOFFM.:	Georg Franz Hoffmann (1761 - 1826), German botanist
	L.:	Carl von Linné (Linnaeus, 1707 - 1777), Swedish naturalist who introduced the binary naming system for plants and animals

Etymology:
	Myosotis:	myos = mouse, otis = ear
	sylvatica:	growing in wood

The Wood Forget Me Not Myosotis sylvatica was the main source for breeding of the bigger flowered Garden Forget Me Not clans which have run wild and proliferate by themselves e.g. on the cemetery of Weimar.

Fig. 1: Myosotis sylvatica / Wood Forget-me-not
D Odenwald, Nieder-Ramstadt 9.5.2006

Fig. 2: Myosotis sylvatica / Wood Forget-me-not
D Odenwald, Nieder-Ramstadt 9.5.2006

Fig. 3: Myosotis sylvatica / Wood Forget-me-not
D Hambrücken 7.4.2007

Fig. 4: Myosotis sylvatica / Wood Forget-me-not
D Hambrücken 29.4.2009

Fig. 5: Myosotis sylvatica / Wood Forget-me-not
D Rheinhessen, Wendelsheim 26.4.2008

Fig. 6: Myosotis sylvatica / Wood Forget-me-not
D Rheinhessen, Wendelsheim 26.4.2008

Fig. 7: Myosotis sylvatica / Wood Forget-me-not
F Queyras, Vieille Ville 22.6.2008

Fig. 8: Myosotis sylvatica / Wood Forget-me-not
F Queyras, Vieille Ville 22.6.2008

Fig. 9: Myosotis sylvatica / Wood Forget-me-not
F Queyras, Vieille Ville 22.6.2008

Fig. 10: Myosotis sylvatica / Wood Forget-me-not
I Norcia 7.6.2007

Fig. 11: Myosotis sylvatica / Wood Forget-me-not
I Norcia 7.6.2007

Fig. 12: Myosotis sylvatica / Wood Forget-me-not
I Norcia 7.6.2007

Myosotis sylvatica / Wood Forget-me-not, D Thüringen Weimar, Historischer Friedhof 6.5.2013

Fig. 13: Myosotis sylvatica / Wood Forget-me-not (garden form)
D Thüringen Weimar, Historischer Friedhof 6.5.2013

Fig. 14: Myosotis sylvatica / Wood Forget-me-not (garden form)
D Thüringen Weimar, Historischer Friedhof 6.5.2013

Fig. 15: Myosotis sylvatica / Wood Forget-me-not (garden form)
D Thüringen Weimar, Historischer Friedhof 6.5.2013

Fig. 16: Myosotis sylvatica / Wood Forget-me-not (garden form)
D Thüringen Weimar, Historischer Friedhof 6.5.2013

Fig. 17: Myosotis sylvatica / Wood Forget-me-not (garden form)
D Thüringen Weimar, Historischer Friedhof 6.5.2013

Fig. 18: Myosotis sylvatica / Wood Forget-me-not (garden form, color variant)
D Thüringen Weimar, Historischer Friedhof 6.5.2013

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