Family | BORAGINACEAE |
Genus species | Myosotis oreophila Petrie |
Bibliography | Trans. & Proc. New Zealand Inst. 28: 539 (1896) |
Native Range | New Zealand |
Primary Biome | Subalpine |
Habitat | scree |
Altitude | 1100-1200m |
Description | leaves in rosettes, linear-spathulate, broadly petiolate, obtuse, long appresed hirsute, stem leaves linear, acute, flowers infundibuliform, ca. 10mm across, in cyme |
Size | 7-10cm |
Color | purple |
Bloom | summer |
Ca | |
Type | perennial |
Cultivation | gravelly, humous, moist, semi-shady site alpine house, moist, humous, gravelly soil, semi-shade |
Propagation | seed in spring, germ. 1-3 months, 13-18°C division in spring; cuttings in late summer |
Territory | 5 Australasia 51 New Zealand (NZS New Zealand South) |