Fr: myosotis laxiflore, myosotis à petite fleur
Provincial Status: N
Range: Temp.-Boreal Amphi-Atlantic; N to sw/w/nw/c/eNfld.
[=Myosotis baltica Sam.]
[=Myosotis cespitosa C.F.Schultz]
[=Myosotis laxa Lehm. subsp. baltica (Sam.) Hyl. ex Nordh.]
[=Myosotis laxa Lehm. subsp. cespitosa (C.F.Schultz) Hyl. ex Nordh.]
[=Myosotis laxa Lehm. subsp. laxa]
[=Myosotis laxa Lehm. var. baltica (Sam.) Alpegren]
[=Myosotis lingulata Lehm., nom. inval.]
[=Myosotis oraria Dumort.]
[=Myosotis palustris (L.) Hill subsp. lingulata Bonnier & Layens]
[=Myosotis palustris (L.) Hill var. glabriuscula Rouy]
[=Myosotis palustris (L.) Hill var. laxa (Lehm.) A.Gray]
[=Myosotis palustris (L.) Hill var. oraria (Dumort.) Rouy]
[=Myosotis scorpioides L. subsp. baltica (Sam.) F.J.Herm.]
[=Myosotis scorpioides L. subsp. cespitosa (C.F.Schulz) F.J.Herm.]
[=Myosotis scorpioides L. subsp. laxa (Lehm.) Hegi]
[=Myosotis uliginosa Schrad. ex Mertens & W.D.J.Koch]
[Research by Pihu et al. (2009) shows that Myosotis laxa s.st. is not restricted in range to North America, but is part of a broader circumboreal species that includes subsp. baltica and subsp. cespitosa, which the authors say would better treated as varieties rather than subspecies.]