The open plant encyclopedia
Snap a photo or search by any name to see how to care for it, where it comes from, whether it's safe, and a 3D model you can turn.
The plants people record most in your country, and ones that grow there wild.
Filter by what you want to do, shape, origin, country, care and safety.
Linum catharticum
Also called Purging flax, Purging flax, fairy flax, Cathartic Flax, Bitter Flax, Dwarf Flax, Mountain Flax, White Flax
Linum catharticum, also known as purging flax, or fairy flax, is an herbaceous flowering plant in the family Linaceae, native to Great Britain, Iceland, central Europe and Western Asia. It is an annual plant and blooms in July and August.
It is a known host of the pathogenic fungus flax rust (Melampsora lini).
Linum alpinum · Tree Flax · Sand flax · Asian flax · Pale flax · Linum campanulatum · Linum cariense · Linum chamissonis · Floreana flax · Linum decumbens · Dolomite Flax · Golden Flax
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Linum catharticum by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.
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.
