Linum bienne

Linum bienne

The two- year-old flax ( Linum bienne, Syn. Linum angustifolium Huds ), also known as wild flax, is a species of the genus flax ( Linum ) in the family of Flax ( Linaceae ).

Description

The two-to perennial herbaceous plant reaches heights of growth between 10 to 60 cm and is usually branched. In addition to flowering and non flowering, leafy shoots exist. The leaves are linear or linear - lanceolate, acuminate, they are 0.5 to 1.5 millimeters wide and have one to three nerves. The blue to pale violet petals are 10 to 15 millimeters long and are two to three times as long as the sepals. The egg-shaped, pointed sepals have a conspicuous midrib. The nearly spherical capsule fruit is 4 to 6 millimeters in size. The beak is about 1 millimeter long.

Bloom time is from May to August.

Dissemination

The area of ​​the Mediterranean -Atlantic species includes almost the entire Mediterranean and Western Europe. To the north it penetrates to the British Isles to the 54th degree of latitude. Furthermore, it is also common in the Canaries, Azores and Madeira.

As the site grass corridors and dry slopes are preferred.

Others

This species is believed to be the root form of commons Leins (Linum usitatissimum ). Cultural flax and wild flax have to use the same chromosome number of 2n = 30 Archaeological finds in Iran and southeastern Turkey that wild flax ( Linum bienne ) was already cultivated 9000 years ago.