A little hidden gem of a plant whose native habitat measures around 15 square kilometers, tucked on rocks beneath waterfalls in the Azores. Also known as the Azorean mouse-ear or the Azorean forget-me-not, there are currently only about 600 of these beauties left in the wild.
Funnily enough, I thought HC Watson was the name of the artist (often included on stamps). It turns out it’s part of the plant’s official name. Hewett Cottrell Watson was a botanist, cataloguer of things, phrenologist, correspondent of Darwin and rather unsuccessful cricketer who did a lot to develop the taxonomy of plants and flowers. He travelled to the Azores in 1842 and presumably met the mouse-ear then.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myosotis_azorica
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hewett_Watson
