Seasonal Wild Flowers

Great Forget-me-not

Brunnera macrophylla

Boraginaceae

Perennial Forget-me-not, Siberian Bugloss

May to June and through mild winters..

It is sparsely scattered throughout the country, but is most

common in the South.

See the BSBI distribution map for Great Forget-me-not

It is a neophyte, which has been planted as ground cover

since the 1830s, and recorded as a garden escape and

throwout since the 1920s.

It grows on wasteground, tips, woods and rough grassland.

It is on the increase.

Great Forget-me-not is a rhizomatous, clump-forming,

perennial herb growing up to 60cm.

The flowers are in clusters, small (10 to 15mm), and light

blue with white centres.

Upper leaves are sessile and the lower leaves are stalked.

Lower leaves are large and heart-shaped. They look too

large for the flowers.

Great Forget-me-not looks like a Forget-me not, but

although it is in the same family, it is in a different

genus, Brunnera compared to Myosotis.

Great Forget-me-not, Little Norton, Somerset

Flower cluster, leaves

Close-up of flowers

Upper leaves unstalked, lower leaves stalked

Spreading stem