antarctica is a subspecies of flowering plant in the family Boraginaceae, native to New Zealand, Campbell Island, and southern Chile.

Plants of this subspecies of forget-me-not are perennial with a prostrate habit, bracteate inflorescences, and white or blue corollas.

traillii by its flexuous, spreading to erect hairs on the blade and edges of the rosette leaves.

antarctica are usually found at inland localities on mainland New Zealand, but can be coastal in Fiordland, Campbell Island and Chile.

traillii has curved, appressed to spreading hairs on the blade and edges of the rosette leaves.

[5] The type specimen of Myosotis antarctica was collected by Joseph Hooker on Campbell Island and is lodged at Kew Herbarium.

The corolla is white, cream, or blue, up to 4 mm in diameter, with a cylindrical tube, and small yellow scales alternating with the petals.

antarctica is a forget-me-not native to New Zealand, Campbell Island,[14] and southern Chile (Magallanes)[15] from 0–2200 m ASL.

[5] Very few collections of this subspecies have been made from Chile, with the most recent being from "Punta Arenas" by Per Dusén in 1895 and from "Puerto Altamirano" by Carl Skottsberg in 1908.

antarctica is found in habitats ranging from coastal to subalpine, including on turfs, fellfields, scree, and cliff faces.

antarctica was previously listed as two different species in the most recent assessment (2017-2018) of the New Zealand Threatened Classification for plants.