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|common_name=Blue-eyed Mary
 
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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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==References==
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*[[Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture]], by L. H. Bailey, MacMillan Co., 1963
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<!--- xxxxx  *Flora: The Gardener's Bible, by Sean Hogan. Global Book Publishing, 2003. ISBN 0881925381  -->
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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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<!--- xxxxx  *Sunset National Garden Book. Sunset Books, Inc., 1997. ISBN 0376038608  -->
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