This section is from the book "Who's Who Among The Wild Flowers", by W. I. Beecroft. Also available from Amazon: A Field Guide to Edible Wild Plants.
Mouse-ear: Snake Grass: Scorpion Grass: Love Me: Myosotis scorpioides.
Borage Family. May - July.
Escaped from gardens; a plant with leafy, branching, half-reclining stems 6 - 15 inches high, found in wet ground. Newfoundland to Pennsylvania and beyond. Naturalized from Europe.
Small, light blue, with a golden eye, 5-lobed, in small clusters.
Oblong or lance-shaped, seated on stem; leaves and stem hairy.
M. laxa.
A native species, found in wet ground from Newfoundland to Ontario and southward.
Light blue, on long stems, loosely clustered; lobes of the flower cup as long as the flower tube.
Blunt, oblong.
 
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