Flax

Linum usitatissimum

Linaceae

Growth Habit

Herbaceous

Description

Erect annual to 120cm. Leaves linear to lanceolate, to 3mm wide, acute. Flowers blue, to 1.25cm diameter, in terminal, leafy, corymbose panicles; sepals ovate, acute, the inner scarious-margined; petals somewhat crenate.

Source of plant

Richters

USDA Hardiness Zone

4

Special characteristics

fiber, other ethnobotanical uses