Family | BORAGINACEAE |
Genus species | Myosotis asiatica (Vestergr.) Schischk. & Serg. |
Bibliography | Fl. Sibir. Occ. [P.N.Krylov] ed. 2, 9: 2272 (1937) |
Native Range | ne. Europe to Russian Far East and Himalaya, Alaska to nw. USA |
Primary Biome | Subalpine or Subarctic |
Habitat | rocky slopes |
Description | stems adpressed hirsute, basal leaves lanceolate or oblong, 1-5cm long, abaxially subglabrous, stem leaves lanceolate, shortly acuminate, flowers 7-9mm across |
Size | 8-30cm |
Color | blue |
Bloom | summer |
Ca | |
Type | perennial |
Cultivation | rock crevices with favourable water regime, eastern slopes alpine house, poor, drained soil, shading in summer |
Propagation | seed in spring, germ. 1-3 months, 13-18°C division in spring; cuttings in late summer |
Synonyms | Myosotis alpestris ssp. asiatica Vestergr. Myosotis alpestris f. eyerdamii (B.Boivin) Cody Myosotis suaveolens ssp. asiatica (Vestergr.) Kozhev. Myosotis sylvatica f. eyerdamii B.Boivin |
Territory | 0 Circumpolar 1 Europe 14 Eastern Europe (RUN North European Russia) 3 Asia-Temperate 30 Siberia (KRA Krasnoyarsk, WSB West Siberia, YAK Yakutskiya) 31 Russian Far East (AMU Amur, KAM Kamchatka, KHA Khabarovsk, MAG Magadan) 32 Middle Asia (KAZ Kazakhstan, KGZ Kirgizistan, TZK Tadzhikistan) 34 Western Asia (AFG Afghanistan, IRN Iran) 36 China (CHC China South-Central, CHI Inner Mongolia, CHM Manchuria, CHN China North-Central, CHQ Qinghai, CHX Xinjiang) 38 Eastern Asia (KOR Korea) 4 Asia-Tropical 40 Indian Subcontinent (EHM East Himalaya, NEP Nepal, PAK Pakistan, WHM West Himalaya) 41 Indo-China (VIE Vietnam) 7 Northern America 70 Subarctic America (ASK Alaska, NWT Northwest Territories, YUK Yukon) 71 Western Canada (ABT Alberta, BRC British Columbia) 73 Northwestern U.S.A. (COL Colorado, IDA Idaho, MNT Montana, ORE Oregon, WAS Washington, WYO Wyoming) |