Nonea lutea
(Yellow Monkswort)

Family - Boraginaceae
Category - Biennial
Origin - Asia, Western Europe
Season of Interest - Spring, Winter
Hardiness - H5
Height - up to 30cm
Location - The Woodland Walk

Description: A low-growing Biennial that forms mounds of bristly, dark green leaves that are covered in small, white bumps. In the second year, small, bowl-shaped, pale yellow flowers with purple calyces are produced from late winter into early spring. This plant resembles a yellow-flowered pulmonaria.

Synonym - Myosotis australis, Nonnea lutea

Flower:

Clusters of small, pale yellow, bowl-shaped flowers with purple calyces are produced in February and March.

Flower colour: Yellow

Flower shape: Bowl-shaped flowers in clusters

Flowering time: February, March

Foliage:

Dark green, ovate to lanceolate leaves are covered in small, white bumps.

Foliage Senescence: Deciduous

Foliage Shape: Ovate to lanceolate

Propagation:

Seed.

Cultivation:

Best in full sun to partial shade in moisture retentive, but well drained soil.