ALPINE FORGET-ME-NOT 
Myosotis alpestris Schmidt 
Alpine forget-me-not has lovely blue, slightly scented flowets, 
densely clustered, with deep yellow centers. It ptefets moist alpine 
slopes neat timberline, and here it is found in perfection, coming into 
flower throughout the summer as the snow tecedes. Like many al- 
pine plants, it has shorter stems when it grows at higher elevations 
on the mountain sides, and there it may properly be described as a 
cluster of blue flowets surrounded by a rosette of green hairy leaves. 
The forget-me-nots belong to the Borage Family. This one has a 
comparatively nattow range in North America, occurring from Col- 
orado to Alberta and Alaska. It is found also in Europe and Asia. 
In the tegion near Baker Lake, ten miles from Lake Louise, 
Alberta, where these flowets were gathered, it grows in perfection 
at an altitude of 6,500 feet. 
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