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'''''Omphalodes verna''''' (common names ''Navelwort'' or ''Blue-eyed Mary'') is a perennial plant native to Central and South-east Europe. 
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This species can spread quickly, and can reach 8 to 12 inches in height.  The plant has a stem that snakes across the ground, giving it the alternative name ''creeping forget-me-not'', and typically grows in the shade of trees.  It is typically hard to uproot and by some accounts may even be invasive, but mostly coexists with other plants well.  Its leaves are grooved, semi-evergreen and medium green that reach 8 inches long and 3 inches wide.  They are veiny, with fine hairs and oval to heart in shape, and radipdly pointed at the tip.  In spring the plant produces small, blue flowers.<ref>{{cite web | url = http://web1.msue.msu.edu/imp/modzz/00002121.html | title = Omphalodes verna--Creeping Forget-Me-Not | accessdate = 2006-07-28 | year= 1999 | publisher = Michigan State University}}</ref><ref>{{cite book | author = Schmid, Wolfram George | date =  2002-10-11 | title = An Encyclopedia of Shade Perennials | publisher = Timber Press | id = ISBN 0-88192-549-7 | pages = 247}}</ref>
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Omphalodes verna, Moench. Creeping Forget-me-not. Stoloniferous perennial: flowering-st. erect: Lvs. sparsely puberulous; radical ones long-petioled, ovate or sub- cordate; st.-lvs. short-petioled, sublanceolate; all Lvs. acuminate, callous at the apex: fls. borne in pairs in a raceme. April, May. Eu. B.M. 7 (as Cynoglossum Omphalodes). Gn. 26, p. 315: 40:150; 72, p. 240.— Fls. light blue, according to DeCandolle. Var. alba, Hort., is also offered.
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Omphalodes verna, Moench. Creeping Forget-me-not. Stoloniferous perennial: flowering-st. erect: Lvs. sparsely puberulous; radical ones long-petioled, ovate or sub- cordate; st.-lvs. short-petioled, sublanceolate; all Lvs. acuminate, callous at the apex: fls. borne in pairs in a raceme. April, May. Eu.— Fls. light blue, according to DeCandolle. Var. alba, Hort., is also offered.
 
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==Cultivation==
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*[[Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture]], by L. H. Bailey, MacMillan Co., 1963
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<!--- xxxxx  *American Horticultural Society: A-Z Encyclopedia of Garden Plants, by Christopher Brickell, Judith D. Zuk. 1996. ISBN 0789419432  -->
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Latest revision as of 20:34, 22 February 2010


Omphalodes verna


Plant Characteristics
Habit   herbaceous

Height: ⇕ 8 in"in" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 8. to 12 in"in" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 12.
Lifespan: ⌛ perennial
Cultivation
Exposure: ☼ part-sun, shade
Features: ✓ flowers
Flower features: ❀ blue
Scientific Names

Boraginaceae >

Omphalodes >

verna >

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Omphalodes verna (common names Navelwort or Blue-eyed Mary) is a perennial plant native to Central and South-east Europe.

This species can spread quickly, and can reach 8 to 12 inches in height. The plant has a stem that snakes across the ground, giving it the alternative name creeping forget-me-not, and typically grows in the shade of trees. It is typically hard to uproot and by some accounts may even be invasive, but mostly coexists with other plants well. Its leaves are grooved, semi-evergreen and medium green that reach 8 inches long and 3 inches wide. They are veiny, with fine hairs and oval to heart in shape, and radipdly pointed at the tip. In spring the plant produces small, blue flowers.[1][2]


Read about Blue-eyed Mary in the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture 

Omphalodes verna, Moench. Creeping Forget-me-not. Stoloniferous perennial: flowering-st. erect: Lvs. sparsely puberulous; radical ones long-petioled, ovate or sub- cordate; st.-lvs. short-petioled, sublanceolate; all Lvs. acuminate, callous at the apex: fls. borne in pairs in a raceme. April, May. Eu.— Fls. light blue, according to DeCandolle. Var. alba, Hort., is also offered.


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Cultivation

Propagation

Pests and diseases

Varieties

Gallery

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References

  1. ↑ "Omphalodes verna--Creeping Forget-Me-Not". Michigan State University (1999). Retrieved on 2006-07-28.
  2. ↑ Schmid, Wolfram George (2002-10-11). An Encyclopedia of Shade Perennials. Timber Press. pp. 247. ISBN 0-88192-549-7. 

External links


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