Forget-me-not eyes open
Photo: Arne Ader
Translation: Liis from forum
Water forget-me-not.
The eyes of one of the most abundantly occurring and most beautiful representatives of the Myosotis genus, the water forget-me-not (Myosotis palustris), are already blue. Some are still pink-coloured, and not yet open. In many languages the name of the flower means forget-me-not or remembrance, quite as in Estonian: “ära-unusta-mind” or “meelespea”, but the wood forget-me-not and the field forget-me-not are also known by these names. But the water forget-me-not should be the true forget-me-not. Our older, native name, “lõosilm”, lark’s-eye, underlines the similarity of the flower with a bird’e eye.
Of the larger-flowered species in the Myosotis group, the wood forget-me-not and the field forget-me-not, with slightly smaller “eyes”, flower at the same time as the water forget-me-not.
Of the larger-flowered species in the Myosotis group, the wood forget-me-not and the field forget-me-not, with slightly smaller “eyes”, flower at the same time as the water forget-me-not.
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