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<h2 id="cultivation">Cultivation</h2> <p>Several flaxes are cultivated as garden <a href="/facts/Ornamental_plant/ImyCDwMW">ornamentals</a>, including the blue-flowered species <a href="/facts/Linum_narbonense/TgggRePW">blue flax</a> (<i>L. narbonense</i>), <a href="/facts/Linum_lewisii/jJSVlo34">Lewis' blue flax</a> (<i>L. lewisii</i>), and <a href="/facts/Linum_perenne/cLrUG6eT">perennial blue flax</a> (<i>L. perenne</i>), the red-flowered <a href="/facts/Linum_grandiflorum/PExb1ChN">scarlet flax</a> (<i>L. grandiflorum</i>), and the yellow-flowered <a href="/facts/Linum_flavum/hTqIqL5R">golden flax</a> (<i>L. flavum</i>). In <a href="/facts/Eurasia/KlLI9GDM">Eurasia</a>, since Roman times, the genus <i>Linum</i> has been cultivated not only for its plant fiber, but also its seeds and tender leaves for culinary usage.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:3" href="#fn:3"><sup>3</sup></a> </p> <h2 id="selected-species">Selected species</h2> <p class="note">Main article: List of Linum species</p> <ul><li><i>Linum africanum</i></li> <li><i>Linum alatum</i> – winged flax</li> <li><i>Linum album</i></li> <li><i><a href="/facts/Linum_alpinum/cd0xAoCh">Linum alpinum</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/facts/Linum_arboreum/LXCweAWP">Linum arboreum</a></i> – tree flax</li> <li><i><a href="/facts/Linum_arenicola/2G3UstDF">Linum arenicola</a></i> – sand flax</li> <li><i>Linum aristatum</i> – bristle flax</li> <li><i>Linum australe</i> – southern flax</li> <li><i><a href="/facts/Linum_austriacum/6BCnLsx3">Linum austriacum</a></i> – Asian flax</li> <li><i>Linum berlandieri</i> – Berlandier's yellow flax</li> <li><i><a href="/facts/Linum_bienne/4YIYoArM">Linum bienne</a></i> (syn. <i>L. angustifolium</i>) – pale flax</li> <li><i><a href="/facts/Linum_campanulatum/68p8N8aP">Linum campanulatum</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/facts/Linum_cariense/Snm1HABU">Linum cariense</a></i></li> <li><i>Linum carteri</i> – Carter's flax</li> <li><i><a href="/facts/Linum_catharticum/Fk5T2f0K">Linum catharticum</a></i> – fairy flax</li> <li><i>Linum compactum</i> – Wyoming flax</li> <li><i><a href="/facts/Linum_cratericola/e23jmsau">Linum cratericola</a></i> – Galápagos Islands flax</li> <li><i><a href="/facts/Linum_dolomiticum/qgfGcRcs">Linum dolomiticum</a> –</i> Dolomite Flax</li> <li><i>Linum elongatum</i> – Laredo flax</li> <li><i><a href="/facts/Linum_flavum/hTqIqL5R">Linum flavum</a></i> – golden flax</li> <li><i>Linum floridanum –</i> Florida yellow flax</li> <li><i><a href="/facts/Linum_grandiflorum/PExb1ChN">Linum grandiflorum</a></i> – scarlet flax, flowering flax</li> <li><i>Linum hirsutum</i> – downy flax</li> <li><i>Linum hudsonioides</i> – Texas flax</li> <li><i>Linum imbricatum</i> – tufted flax</li> <li><i><a href="/facts/Linum_intercursum/X1KaUIXv">Linum intercursum</a></i> – sandplain flax</li> <li><i>Linum kingii</i> – King's flax</li> <li><i>Linum leoni</i></li> <li><i><a href="/facts/Linum_lewisii/jJSVlo34">Linum lewisii</a></i> – Lewis' blue flax, Lewis flax</li> <li><i>Linum lundellii</i> – Sullivan City flax</li> <li><i>Linum macrocarpum</i> – Spring Hill flax</li> <li><i><a href="/facts/Linum_marginale/hmjK3uNa">Linum marginale</a></i> – Australian native flax</li> <li><i><a href="/facts/Linum_medium/teWCUWcT">Linum medium</a></i> – stiff yellow flax</li> <li><i><a href="/facts/Linum_monogynum/ytDmyY3c">Linum monogynum</a></i> – New Zealand linen flax</li> <li><i><a href="/facts/Linum_narbonense/TgggRePW">Linum narbonense</a></i> – blue flax</li> <li><i>Linum neomexicanum</i> – New Mexico yellow flax</li> <li><i><a href="/facts/Linum_perenne/cLrUG6eT">Linum perenne</a></i> – perennial blue flax</li> <li><i><a href="/facts/Linum_pratense/7FLveauG">Linum pratense</a></i> – meadow flax</li> <li><i><a href="/facts/Linum_puberulum/XumgfnSc">Linum puberulum</a></i> – plains flax</li> <li><i><a href="/facts/Linum_pubescens/5YaJzSN9">Linum pubescens</a></i></li> <li><i>Linum rigidum</i> -– stiffstem flax</li> <li><i>Linum rupestre</i> – rock flax</li> <li><i>Linum schiedeanum</i> – Schiede's flax</li> <li><i><a href="/facts/Linum_strictum/tAreSRSt">Linum strictum</a></i> – ridged yellow flax</li> <li><i>Linum subteres</i> – Sprucemont flax, slenderfoot flax</li> <li><i><a href="/facts/Linum_suffruticosum/7JUlIv8V">Linum suffruticosum</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/facts/Linum_sulcatum/b9BpBmPd">Linum sulcatum</a></i> – grooved flax</li> <li><i>Linum tenuifolium</i></li> <li><i><a href="/facts/Linum_trigynum/1zHMtTTa">Linum trigynum</a></i> – French flax</li> <li><i><a href="/facts/Linum_ucranicum/h0WeWpgR">Linum ucranicum</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/facts/Flax/rm28CMyJ">Linum usitatissimum</a></i> – common cultivated flax</li> <li><i>Linum vernal</i> – Chihuahuan flax</li> <li><i>Linum virginianum</i> – woodland flax</li> <li><i>Linum westii</i> – West's flax</li></ul> <h2 id="see-also">See also</h2> <ul><li><a href="/facts/Hesperolinon/bcMdUWpF">Hesperolinon</a></li> <li><a href="/facts/Sclerolinon/UrLGbP3Q">Sclerolinon</a></li></ul> <h2 id="external-links">External links</h2> Wikimedia Commons has media related to Linum. <ul><li><a href="http://www.ipni.org/ipni/plantsearch?find_wholeName=&find_family=&find_infrafamily=&find_genus=linum&find_infragenus=&find_isAPNIRecord=on&find_species=&find_infraspecies=&find_isGCIRecord=on&find_authorAbbrev=&find_publicationTitle=&find_isIKRecord=on&find_rankToReturn=all&output_format=normal&find_includePublicationAuthors=on&find_includePublicationAuthors=off&find_includeBasionymAuthors=on&find_includeBasionymAuthors=off&find_sortByFamily=on&find_sortByFamily=off&query_type=by_query&back_page=query_ipni.html">IPNI Query</a></li> <li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20110706210723/http://www.herbier.ulaval.ca/specimens_types/template.php?pid=0028026"><i>Linum lepagei</i> type sheet</a> from Louis-Marie Herbarium (<a href="/facts/Laval_University/4G2YvXkh">Laval University</a>).</li> <li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090420235016/http://www.flaxcouncil.ca/english/index.jsp">The Flax Council of Canada</a></li></ul> <h2 id="references">References</h2> <ol> <li id="fn:1"><p>Linum. The Jepson Manual. <a href="http://ucjeps.berkeley.edu/cgi-bin/get_JM_treatment.pl?4965,4980" target="_blank">http://ucjeps.berkeley.edu/cgi-bin/get_JM_treatment.pl?4965,4980</a> <a href="#fnref:1" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:2"><p>Muravenko, O. V., et al. (2010). Karyogenomics of species of the genus Linum L. Russian Journal of Genetics 46(10), 1182-85. <a href="https://link.springer.com/article/10.1134/S1022795410100091#page-1" target="_blank">https://link.springer.com/article/10.1134/S1022795410100091#page-1</a> <a href="#fnref:2" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:3"><p>Babylonian Talmud (Baba Bathra 92a, Rashi, s.v. ולא צמחו; Nedarim 49a), Mishnah (Peah 6:4), Tosefta (Ma'aser Rishon 3:8) <a href="/wiki/Babylonian_Talmud" target="_blank">/wiki/Babylonian_Talmud</a> <a href="#fnref:3" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> </ol>