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Camelina sativa
Also called German Sesame, Dutch Flax, Big Seed False Flax, False Flax, Large Seed False Flax, Large Seeded False Flax, Common False Flax
Camelina sativa, known as gold-of-pleasure or false flax, is a cold-tolerant annual or biennial oilseed plant in the cabbage family. It grows easily in cool, dry, open ground and is grown mainly for its oil-rich seed.
Camelina sativa is a flowering plant in the family Brassicaceae usually known as camelina, gold-of-pleasure, or false flax, but also occasionally as wild flax, linseed dodder, German sesame, or Siberian oilseed. It is native to Europe and areas of Central Asia, but is cultivated as an oilseed crop mainly in Europe and in North America. It is not related to true flax, which is in the family Linaceae.
Today, camelina is found wild or cultivated in almost all regions of Europe, Asia, and North America, but also in South America, Australia, and New Zealand. Camelina seems to be particularly adapted to cold semiarid climate zone (steppes and prairies).
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Camelina sativa by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.
The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
