forget-me-not

for·get–me–not

noun \fər-ˈget-mē-ˌnät, fȯr-\

Definition of FORGET-ME-NOT

: any of a genus (Myosotis) of small herbs of the borage family having usually bright blue or white flowers usually arranged in a curving spike

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First Known Use of FORGET-ME-NOT

1532

forget-me-not

noun    (Concise Encyclopedia)

Woods forget-me-not (Myosotis sylvatica)—Ingmar Holmasen

Any of about 90 species of plants that make up the genus Myosotis, in the borage family, native to temperate Eurasia and North America and to mountains of the Old World tropics. Some are favoured as garden plants for their clusters of blue flowers. The woods forget-me-not (M. sylvatica), like most other species, changes colour from pink to blue as the tubular, flaring, five-lobed flower matures.