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Forget-me-not creeping (lat. Myosotis decumbens) - a herbaceous flowering creeping plant of the genus Forget-me-not (Latin Myosotis), which is a member of the Borage family (Latin Boraginaceae). It is a thin-rhizome perennial cold-resistant plant that lives in the Arctic regions of the Northern Hemisphere. The plant protected itself from the cold weather with a hairy cover of shoots, leaves and sepals, although there are specimens devoid of hairs. Sapphire flower petals compete with the heavens in color.
What's in your name
Although the Latin name of the genus is based on the ancient Greek language, in which the word with this sound means "mouse ear", in many European languages the popular names are based on the word "do not forget". Small but piercing blue petals of tiny and delicate flowers are tuned to such a lyrical name. They are like a piece of inaccessible heaven, to which a person periodically turns for help in difficult moments of life, or in moments of gratitude for a priceless gift - life.
Forget-me-nots are a symbol of fidelity, and therefore are popular as a bouquet, when loving people have to temporarily leave for some reason. A modest bouquet personifies dedication and loyalty to the only love that is not afraid of the tests of time and distances. After all, the heavenly color of graceful and delicate petals is a small particle of infinite Eternity.
The specific epithet "decumbens" ("creeping") shows the nature of the stems, not striving upward, but preferring to be located closer to mother earth. So it is much more convenient and reliable for a perennial plant to survive the cold season.
Description
Forget-me-not creeping does not spend its energy on striving for heaven, preserving them to maintain a thin rhizome that feeds the above-ground part of the plant and gives life to new shoots.
Ascending or erect branched stems reach a height of 15 to 40 centimeters and are covered with a thin layer of hairs.
Two types of leaves are located on one plant. Basal leaves have a broad-lanceolate shape with a rounded apex and are equipped with a winged shank. Narrow stem leaves obovate, with a sharp nose, solid edge and hairy pubescence.
Blue flowers are actinomorphic, that is, they have a "regular shape" - this means that you can draw more than two vertical planes, each of which will divide the flower into two symmetrical parts.
Narrowly triangular 5-lobed sepals, fused together at the base, diverge in different directions approximately in the middle, giving way to a sapphire-colored corolla of five petals fused together at the base to form a miniature wheel. Sepals are covered with dense bristly hairs. There are also 5 filamentous stamens.
Miniature graceful flowers form a racemose inflorescence. Peduncles are covered with hairs. Flowering occurs in June and July.
The crown of the growing cycle is dark brown or black small nuts, up to two millimeters long. Seeds ripen by the end of July or in August.
Usage
Unfortunately, the most beautiful creation of nature is ranked among the plants disappearing from the face of the Earth and needs to be protected by humans. The name "Forget-me-not creeping" is included in the Red Data Books of the places where it has grown in the wild since ancient times. In Russia, these are Karelia and the Murmansk region.
Fans of Forget-me-nots are trying to preserve the endangered species by planting plants in flower beds, in summer cottages. Quite unpretentious Forget-me-not creeping will perfectly fit into a rocky garden or an alpine hill.
Reproduction is carried out through sowing seeds, or by dividing a thin rhizome.
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