Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Eudicots: Core Eudicots: Rosids: Fabids: Malpighiales
WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/14/23):
Linum usitatissimum
FAMILY
Linaceae
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Dig deeper at SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.
This is the flax of commerce, used for its fiber for at least the last 25,000 years (the source of flax/linen), seeds, and the oil expressed from its seeds (linseed oil). Read more in Weakley's Flora (2023).
Learn more from Vascular Plants of North Carolina.
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Linum usitatissimum
FAMILY
Linaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Linum usitatissimum
SYNONYMOUS WITH Flora of North America north of Mexico, vol. 12 (2016)
Linum usitatissimum
SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America (Kartesz, 1999)
Linum usitatissimum
SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 099-01-001:
Linum usitatissimum FAMILY Linaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Linum usitatissimum
COMMON NAME:
Common Flax, Cultivated Flax, Linaza
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WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/14/23):
Linum usitatissimum
FAMILY
Linaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Linum usitatissimum
FAMILY
Linaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Linum usitatissimum
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Flora of North America north of Mexico, vol. 12
Linum usitatissimum
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Floristic Synthesis of North America (Kartesz, 1999)
Linum usitatissimum
SYNONYMOUS WITH
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 099-01-001:
Linum usitatissimum
FAMILY
Linaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Linum usitatissimum
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