Although forget-me-not, Myosotis, has attracted little folklore, it is depicted on thousands of postcards produced in the first decades of the twentieth century; the example here was posted in Brighton to an address in the same town on 13 April 1917.

Formerly known as scorpion grass, according to Niall Mac Coitir, in his Irish Wild Plants, Myths, Legends & Folklore (2006), the name forget-me-not was introduced by Samuel Coleridge in a love poem published in  1802:

Nor can I find, amid my lonely walk                                                                        By rivulet, or spring, or wet roadside                                                                        That blue and bright-eyed flowerlet of the brook,                                                  Hope’s gentle gem, the sweet forget-me-not!