Changing Forget-me-not, Yellow and Blue Forget-me-not, Yellow and Blue Scorpion Grass, Yellow and Blue Scorpiongrass, Yellow Scorpiongrass
Myosotis discolor
Synonym: Myosotis versicolor
- ![Inflorescence of Changing Forget-me-not, Yellow and Blue Forget-me-not, Yellow and Blue Scorpion Grass, Yellow and Blue Scorpiongrass, Yellow Scorpiongrass: Myosotis discolor (Synonym: Myosotis versicolor)](micrantha/micranthaflwrs.jpg)
Yellow and blue scorpion grass as photographed atop
the Columbia Hills in the eastern Columbia River Gorge........May 1,
2005.
Note
the spreading hairs covering the outer surface of the calyces.
![Basal leaves and lower stem leaves of Changing Forget-me-not, Yellow and Blue Forget-me-not, Yellow and Blue Scorpion Grass, Yellow and Blue Scorpiongrass, Yellow Scorpiongrass: Myosotis discolor (Synonym: Myosotis versicolor)](micrantha/micranthalvs.jpg)
The photo above shows a close-up of the basal
cluster of leaves and lower stem leaves of yellow and blue scorpion-grass. Note the flower
buds from the axils of the lower stem leaves at right, a diagnostic feature
of this species. Photographed at the crest of the Columbia Hills........May
1, 2005.
- ![Inflorescence of Changing Forget-me-not, Yellow and Blue Forget-me-not, Yellow and Blue Scorpion Grass, Yellow and Blue Scorpiongrass, Yellow Scorpiongrass: Myosotis discolor (Synonym: Myosotis versicolor)](discolor/discolor3b.jpg)
Upper stem leaf and scorpiod inflorescence of yellow and blue forget-me-not as seen along the McCord Creek Trail in the western Columbia River Gorge........May 20, 2009.
Paul Slichter