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Marine Park, Brooklyn. Grassy area between Avenue U & Lenape Playground.

Leaf underside photos show uncinate hairs especially on midrib, other diagnostic features of species visible in photos of whole plants & closeups of flowers.

Will add additional photos later from fresh material collected, including closeups of uncinate hairs on leaf underside.

See the following article:

Jones, A. & Rumsey, F. 2019. Myosotis stricta: a likely native and overlooked forget-me-not in Britain. BSBI News 141: 8-9.
https://www.bsbi.org/wp-content/uploads/dlm_uploads/BSBI-News-141-website-version.pdf

Explanation of photographs:
Photos 1-9 (cellphone) & 15-22 (camera) taken in field (site as described & with coordinates as given).
Remaining photos taken in the lab on 7 May 2024.

Smallest division of stage micrometer = 0.1 mm.

Additional References:
Gleason, H. A. & Cronquist, A. 1991 (2009). Manual of Vascular Plants of Northeastern United States and Adjacent Canada. The New York Botanical Garden, New York. xlvi, 993 pages.

Rhoads, A. F. & Block, T. A. 2007. The Plants of Pennsylvania: An Illustrated Manual. 2nd edition. University of Pennsylvania Press, Philadelphia. vii, 1042 pages.

Small herbaceous blue flower found in open steppe on the border of a cattle trail and ñirre shrubland on flat ground in open sun. Soil is dusty and dry, adjacent to large lichen colonies and plantain. Grows in single erect stems with alternative leaves and flowers. Flowers are 2mm in diameter have five petals and are white/yellow in the middle with united sepals. Entire plant is hairy. Conditions are windy, Beaufort 5, and weather is partly cloudy.

Growing along the middle of the Black-and-White Warbler Trail, full sun, sandy-clay soil. Tiny white flowers and fruits ca 5mm long with some hooks hairs. Associated plants:
Houstonia pusilla, Houstonia rosea, Euphorbia texana, Callitriche pedunculosa, Krigia occidentalis, Astranthium ciliatum.