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Myosotis ( ) is a of flowering plants in the family . In the Northern Hemisphere, they are colloquially known as forget-me-nots or scorpion grasses. Myosotis alpestris is the official flower of and , Sweden.

The name comes from the μυοσωτίς "mouse's ear", which the foliage is thought to resemble. Plants of the genus are not to be confused with the related genus and its sole species Myosotidium hortensia found in the .

Description
The genus was originally described by . The is Myosotis scorpioides. Myosotis species are or , herbaceous, with penta flowers.

Their foliage is alternate, and their are generally diffuse. They typically flower in spring or soon after the melting of snow in alpine ecosystems.

Flowers are borne on scorpioid cymes; they are flatly faced, with a typical diameter of or less; they are coloured typically blue, but sometimes pink, white or yellow. Its centre consists of five anthers each on filaments fused to the petals, they are surrounded by yellow bumps called "fornices".

The are contained in small, tulip-shaped pods along the stem to the flower. The pods attach to clothing when brushed against and eventually fall off, leaving the small seed within the pod to elsewhere. Seeds can be collected by placing a sheet of paper under stems and shaking the seed pods onto the paper.

Myosotis scorpioides is colloquially called scorpion grass because of the spiraling curvature of its inflorescence.

Distribution
The genus is largely restricted to western Eurasia, with over 60 confirmed species, and with around 40 endemic species. A few species occur elsewhere, including North America, South America, and Papua New Guinea. Despite this, Myosotis species are now common throughout temperate latitudes because of the introduction of and alien species. Many are popular in . They prefer moist habitats. In locales where they are not native, they frequently escape to and riverbanks.

One or two European species, especially Myosotis sylvatica, the "woodland" forget-me-not, have been introduced into most of the regions of Europe, Asia, and the Americas.

Genetic analysis indicates that the genus originated in the Northern Hemisphere, and that species native to New Zealand, Australia, New Guinea, and South America form a lineage of closely related species that are likely derived from a single dispersal event to the Southern Hemisphere.

Ecology
Myosotis species are food for the of some species, including the setaceous Hebrew character. Many of the species in New Zealand are threatened.

Taxonomy
Of more than 510 recorded species names, only 156 are presently accepted, listed below. The remainder are either synonyms or hybrids of presently accepted or proposed names.

  • Myosotis abyssinica Boiss. & Reut.
  • Myosotis afropalustris C.H. Wright
  • Myosotis albicans  Riedl
  • Myosotis albiflora & Sol. ex Hook.f.
  • Myosotis albosericea Hook.f.
  • Myosotis alpestris F.W.Schmidt (alpine forget-me-not)
  • Myosotis amabilis Cheeseman
  • Myosotis ambigens (Bég.)
  • Myosotis angustata Cheeseman
  •  Riedl
  • Myosotis antarctica Hook.f.
  • Myosotis arnoldii L.B.Moore
  • Myosotis arvensis (L.) Hill (field forget-me-not)
  • Myosotis asiatica (Vestergr. ex Hultén) Schischk. & Serg. (Asiatic forget-me-not)
  • Myosotis atlantica  Vestergr.
  • Myosotis australis R.Br.
  • Myosotis austrosibirica  O.D.Nikif.
  • H.C.Watson (Azores forget-me-not)
  • Myosotis baicalensis  O.D.Nikif.
  • Myosotis balbisiana Jord.
  • Myosotis × bohemica Domin
  • Myosotis × bollandica P.Jeps.
  • Myosotis bothriospermoides Kitag.
  • Myosotis brachypoda  Gren.
  • de Lange & Barkla
  • Myosotis brockiei L.B.Moore & M.J.A.Simpson
  • Myosotis bryonoma Meudt, Prebble & Thorsen
  • Myosotis butorinae  Stepanov
  • Myosotis × cadevallii
  • Kitag
  • Myosotis cameroonensis   & R.Becker
  • Myosotis capitata Hook.f.
  • Myosotis chaffeyorum Lehnebach
  • Myosotis chakassica  O.D.Nikif.
  • Myosotis cheesemanii Petrie
  • Myosotis × cinerascens Petrie
  • Myosotis colensoi (Kirk) J.F.Macbr.
  • Myosotis concinna Cheeseman
  • Myosotis congesta  Shuttlew.
  • Myosotis corsicana  (Fiori) Grau
  • Myosotis czekanowskii (Trautv.) Kamelin & V.N.Tikhom.
  • Myosotis daralaghezica  T.N.Popova
  •  
  • Myosotis decumbens Host
  • Myosotis densiflora
  • Myosotis diminuta  Grau
  • Myosotis discolor Pers. (changing forget-me-not)
  • Myosotis densiflora C. Koch
  • Myosotis dissitiflora  Baker
  • Myosotis ergakensis  Stepanov
  • Myosotis exarrhena F. Muell.
  • Petrie
  • Myosotis explanata Cheeseman
  • Myosotis forsteri Lehm.
  •  Vestergr.
  • Myosotis galpinii  C.H.Wright
  • Myosotis glabrescens L.B.Moore
  • (G.Simpson & J.S.Thomson) de Lange & Barkla
  • Petrie
  • Myosotis graminifolia  DC.
  •  Selvi
  • A.P.Khokhr.
  • Myosotis heteropoda  Trautv.
  • Meudt, Prebble & G.M.Rogers
  •  Serg.
  • Myosotis incrassata
  • Myosotis jenissejensis  O.D.Nikif.
  • Myosotis jordanovii  N.Andreev & Peev
  • Myosotis × kablikiana
  • Myosotis kamelinii  O.D.Nikif.
  • Myosotis kazakhstanica  O.D.Nikif.
  • Myosotis kebeshensis  Stepanov
  • Myosotis keniensis  T.C.E.Fr.
  •  Riedl
  • Myosotis kolakovskyi  A.P.Khokhr.
  • Myosotis × krajinae
  • Myosotis krasnoborovii  O.D.Nikif. & Lomon.
  • Myosotis krylovii Serg.
  •  Riedl
  • Cheeseman
  • Cheeseman
  • Myosotis latifolia Poir. (broadleaf forget-me-not)
  • Lehm. (tufted forget-me-not or bay forget-me-not)
  •  Popov
  • Myosotis lithospermifolia Hornem.
  • Myosotis lithuanica  (Schmalh.) Besser ex Dobrocz.
  • Myosotis litoralis  Steven ex M.Bieb.
  • Myosotis ludomilae  Zaver.
  • Hook.f.
  • Myosotis macrantha (Hook.f.) & Hook.f. (bronze forget-me-not)
  • Myosotis macrosiphon  Font Quer & Maire
  • Myosotis macrosperma (largeseed forget-me-not)
  • Myosotis magniflora  A.P.Khokhr.
  • Myosotis margaritae  Štěpánková
  • Myosotis maritima  Hochst. ex Seub.
  •  Sennen
  • Myosotis matthewsii L.B.Moore
  • Myosotis michaelae  Štěpánková
  • Myosotis micrantha  Pall. ex Lehm.
  • Myosotis minutiflora Boiss. & Reut.
  • Cheeseman (Monro's forget-me-not)
  • Myosotis nemorosa Besser
  • Myosotis nikiforovae  Stepanov
  • Myosotis ochotensis  O.D.Nikif.
  • Myosotis olympica  Boiss.
  • Myosotis oreophila Petrie
  • (L.B.Moore) Meudt, Prebble, R.J.Stanley & Thorsen
  • Myosotis × parviflora
  • Myosotis paucipilosa  (Grau) Ristow & Hand
  • Myosotis × permixta
  • Myosotis persoonii   & E.G.Camus
  • Myosotis petiolata Hook.f.
  • Myosotis platyphylla Boiss.
  •  Dobrocz.
  • Myosotis pospelovae
  • Myosotis pottsiana (L.B.Moore) Meudt, Prebble, R.J.Stanley & Thorsen
  • Myosotis propinqua  (Turcz.) Fisch. & C.A.Mey.
  • Myosotis × pseudohispida
  • Myosotis pulvinaris Hook.f. (cushion forget-me-not)
  •  Loisel.
  • Myosotis radix-palaris  A.P.Khokhr.
  • L.B.Moore
  • Myosotis ramosissima Rochel (early forget-me-not)
  • Myosotis refracta  Boiss.
  • Myosotis rehsteineri  (Hausm.) Wartm. ex Reut.
  • Myosotis retrorsa Meudt, Prebble & Hindmarsh-Walls
  • Myosotis rivularis (Vestergr.) A.P. Khokhr
  •  
  • Myosotis sajanensis  O.D.Nikif.
  • Myosotis saxatilis Petrie
  • Hook.f.
  • Myosotis schistosa  A.P.Khokhr.
  • Myosotis schmakovii  O.D.Nikif.
  • Myosotis scorpioides (L.) (true forget-me-not)
  • Al.Murray (creeping forget-me-not)
  • Myosotis semiamplexicaulis DC.
  • (Jersey forget-me-not)
  •  Greuter & Zaffran
  • Myosotis soleirolii  Godr.
  • Myosotis sparsiflora J.C.Mikan ex Pohl
  • Myosotis spatulata
  • Myosotis speciosa  Pomel
  • Myosotis speluncicola Schott ex Boiss.
  • Myosotis stenophylla Knaf
  • Myosotis stolonifera (J.Gay ex DC.) J.Gay ex Leresche & Levier
  • Link ex Roem. & Schult.
  • Petrie]
  • Myosotis subcordata  Riedl
  • Myosotis × suzae
  • Myosotis sylvatica Ehrh. ex Hoffm. (wood forget-me-not)
  •  Valdés
  • Myosotis tenericaulis Petrie
  •  C.Brullo &
  • Myosotis traversii Hook.f.
  • Myosotis tuxeniana (O.Bolòs & Vigo) O.Bolòs & Vigo
  • Myosotis ucrainica Czern.
  • Myosotis ultramafica Meudt, Prebble & Rance
  • Meudt, Prebble & Thorsen
  • Myosotis uniflora Hook.f.
  • Myosotis urceolaris  Shuttlew.
  • Myosotis venticola Meudt & Prebble
  • Myosotis verchojanica
  • Nutt. (spring forget-me-not)
  • Myosotis vestergrenii  Stroh
  • Myosotis welwitschii Boiss. & Reut.
  • Myosotis wumengensis  L.Wei

Gallery
File:Myosotis scorpioides LC0184.jpg| Myosotis scorpioides File:Myosotis eximia Flowers MRD Otari.jpg| File:Myosotis colensoi.jpg| Myosotis colensoi File:Myosotis pulvinaris 2.jpg| Myosotis pulvinaris File:Myosotis pansa kz1.jpg| File:Blue forget-me-nots.jpg| Myosotis sylvatica File:P1050373 Alpine forget-me-not (Myosotis alpestris) in Kharta Chu side valley, Tibet Thu 20 July 2006.jpg| Myosotis alpestris

Symbolism
The small, blue forget-me-not flower was first used by the Zur Sonne, in 1926, as a Masonic emblem at the annual convention in , . In 1938, a forget-me-not badge—made by the same factory as the Masonic badge—was chosen for the annual Nazi Party , the annual charity drive of the National Socialist People's Welfare, the welfare branch of the Nazi party. This coincidence enabled to wear the forget-me-not badge as a secret sign of membership.

After World War II, the forget-me-not flower was used again as a Masonic emblem in 1948 at the first Annual Convention of the United Grand Lodges of Germany. The badge is now worn in the coat lapel by Freemasons around the world to remember all who suffered in the name of Freemasonry, especially those during the Nazi era.

The flower is also used as a symbol of remembrance by the people of Newfoundland and Labrador. It is used to commemorate those from the province who were killed in the First World War, and worn around July 1.

It is also used in Germany to commemorate the fallen soldiers of the world wars in a similar manner to the use of remembrance poppies in the UK.

The flower is also the symbol for the Armenian genocide's 100th anniversary. The design of the flower is a black dot symbolising the past, and the suffering of Armenian people. The light purple appendages symbolise the present, and unity of Armenians. The five purple petals symbolise the future, and the five continents to which Armenians escaped. The yellow in the centre symbolises eternity, and the itself symbolises the 12 provinces lost to Turkey.

In , the flower has become one of the symbols for the commemoration of the January events of 1991.

In the Netherlands, the forget-me-not has become a symbol for Alzheimer Nederland, a foundation advocating for people suffering from .

In New Zealand, the forget-me-not is the symbol for Alzheimers New Zealand, the foundation advocating for people suffering from Alzheimer's disease and dementia.

In the United Kingdom, many health settings make use of the forget-me-not as a symbol to highlight that someone has dementia; it may be placed on notes, bedsides or patient boards. Also in the United Kingdom, the forget-me-not is the symbol of the Alzheimer's Society.

In the history of art, the forget-me-not is used to remember loved ones who have died, and so is very common in funerary portraits.

Since the it has become a symbol of everlasting love and devotion. There is a German legend set as an origin story behind the name "Forget-Me-Not". In the legend, a knight was walking with his lady near the and decided to pick blue flowers for her. While picking the flowers he fell in the river and was swept away. He tossed the flowers to his lady and his last words to her were "Forget-me-not!".

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