[2] A hardy annual growing to 50 cm (20 in), it has hairy leaves and cymes of sky-blue flowers in late summer.

This plant, closely related to the common forget-me-not of temperate gardens (Myosotis sylvatica), is also grown as an ornamental.

[3] In cultivation in the UK it has gained the Royal Horticultural Society's Award of Garden Merit.

[5] The Latin specific epithet amabile means "lovely".

[6] Cynoglossum amabile contains tumorigenic pyrrolizidine alkaloids[7] such as amabiline.