Forget-me-nots

Not that, but the name of this common weed escapes me right now.

They may be some type of forget me nots, IDK, but they don’t look like the common ones, Myosotis sylvatica, to my eye.

It’s the first time I have seen them. Or at least seen them flowering. There is just one group of about 15 plants is a relatively small, shady area. Didn’t notice them anywhere else in my yard.

I stand corrected. Gosh, but I was so sure! Will have now to have a better look at mine, as soon as they will start sprouting here!

It says they cannot grow in shade. Maybe that’s why the leaves on mine are so small compared to the description. Not really salad worthy. Thank you so much for the quick help!

Windberry, FMN have a yellow or white center typically and are larger in size. The stems visible in the first image aren’t right with the reddish color, different branching patterns from regular FMN, and they look U shaped in cross section. There are similarities, and I had to look carefully to figure out why they didn’t look right.

Thank you, floral! I actually grow mache in my winter greens garden, lol.

It has naturalized in parts of the PNW and grows wild.....and inhabits moist, shady places :-)

I am going to try a leaf. With all the weeds here identified here as edible, I could live on them. Maybe not the cleaver. I cannot get over the texture of that one.

Thanks a lot NHBabs. I am getting impatient to see mine growing and to check them. My place is still covered with snow, though. Another couple of months maybe. I am in zone 5a in the S-Central BC , very close to the border with the US.

There is actually a very popular book/field guide titled Eat The Weeds. It's amazing how many common plants many of us think of as just weeds are completely edible and at one time, were a staple part of many peoples' diets.

I will check it out!

That is the only Valerianella species I know of with pale blue flowers. It is greatly underreported on distribution maps, and is now relatively common across much of Arkansas.

This species self seeds all over my allotment. You don't harvest it leaf by leaf. Just cut off a whole plant. It needs thorough rinsing because being a winter salad it gets a lot of mud splash and can be gritty if not carefully cleaned. The leaves are larger on the basal rosettes. Once they start to flower the leaves get smaller. But they're perfectly edible at any stage, including the flowers. And superior to lots of other wild greens imo. There are commercially available cultivars with larger leaves.

Always be completely sure of identifications before eating previously unknown plant species.