Seasonal Wild Flowers

Baby's-blue-eyes

Nemophila menziesii

Boraginaceae

June to September

It is found only occasionally.

See the BSBI distribution map for Baby's-blue-eyes

It is a neophyte which was imported from California over

a 100 years ago.

It is grown in gardens providing ground cover.

It has become recognised as naturalised in England and

is an occasional escape.

Conservation Biology Volume 21, No. 1, 224-231.

It appeared among my strawberries and was presumably

bird-sown.

Baby's-blue-eyes is an annual, herb, growing up to 20cm.

The flowers are deep to pale blue with a white centre.

Stamens are almost black

Leaves are Tansy-like.

Baby's-blue-eyes - bird-sown casual

Single flower

Sepals

Leaves