Flax

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Berlandier's yellow flax

Pursh prairie flax

Alpine Lewis' Flax

Alpine Lewis' Flax

Prairie Flax

Prairie Flax

Related Flowers

Yellow Herbaceous Flax

Yellow Herbaceous Flax (Linum Campanulatum) - A perennial with yellow flowers on stems 12 to 18 inches high, distinct and worthy of a place. A native of the south of Europe, it flowers in summer and flourishes freely in dry soil on the warm sides of banks or rock gardens. Similar to it is L. flavum, or tauricum, also a handsome and hardy plant, with yellow flowers; but L. arboreum, a shrubby kind, also with yellow flowers, is not hardy in all districts, though where it thrives it is a pretty little evergreen bush for the rock garden.

Narbonne Flax

Narbonne Flax (Linum Narbonnense) - A beautiful kind, bearing during summer many large light sky-blue flowers, with violet veins, growing best on rich light soils, and is a fine plant for borders, or for the lower flanks of the rock garden, forming lovely blue masses 15 to 20 inches high. S. Europe.

Red Flax

L. Grandiflorum (Red Flax) is a showy hardy annual from Algeria, with deep red blossoms. By successive sowings it may be had in bloom from May till October. Seed sown in autumn will give plants for spring-blooming, and sowings made from March to June will yield a display through the summer and autumn. If protected from frost the plant is perennial.

Similar kinds

Other similar blue-flowered kinds are L. perenne, usitatissimum, alpinum, sibiricum, alpicola, collinum, and austriacum; all are hardy European species, and make pretty border or rock garden plants. The white and rose varieties of L. perenne are pretty.

Common Flax

The Common Flax, which gives us the lines fibre, is a pretty annual plant worth a place for its beauty among annual flowers.

The True Flax

The True Flax (Linum Usitatissimum) - A beautiful annual. I have oft thought it worthy a place even in the flower-beds. Sown in mid-April, it flowers long through the summer, but is a hungry feeder that few will place for.

White Rock Flax

White Rock Flax (Linum Salsoloides) - Dwarf half-shrubby species, essentially a rock garden plant; its flowers, white with a purplish eye. In the rock garden, in a well-exposed sunny nook, the plant is hardy, and trails over stones, flowering abundantly. It produces seeds rarely, so that it must be increased by cuttings of the short shoots taken off about midsummer; these will strike freely, and make vigorous plants when potted off in the following spring. L. s. nanum is a rare dwarf form studded with large pinky-white flowers. An excellent rock garden plant. Mountains of Europe. L. viscosum, with pink flowers, is a closely allied plant not so pretty.