Linum flavumL. - Yellow Flax
Scientific Description:
Herbaceous perennial, stems arising from an underground stock, without sterile rosettes. Flowering stems (10–)20–35 cm, without basal rosettes, strongly ridged and often scabrid. Median leaves oblong-lanceolate to oblong-oblanceolate, 25–45 × 5–14 mm, 3–7–(usually 5–) nerved below. Cyme many-flowered, 5–15 cm broad, less spreading than in Linum mucronatum Bertol. , the flowers subsessile on ultimate cymules borne on ascending peduncles. Sepals lanceolate, 8–15 mm, keeled, margin membranous and glandular-ciliate. Petals yellow, 20–25 mm. Capsule 4–5 mm; beak 0.75–1 mm.
Flowering Time: May–June.
Habitat: Calcareous steppe, hillsides, fallow fields, and roadsides, 500–1000 m.
subsp. scabrinerve (P.H.Davis) P.H.Davis
Median stem leaves widest below the middle, thicker, glaucous, nerves and stem ridges scabrid.
Reference:
Davis PH (1967). Linum flavum L., In: Davis PH (ed.), Flora of Turkey and the East Aegean Islands, Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh, 2: 432.
Public Description:
Linum flavum, common name “yellow flax” or “golden flax”, is a flowering herbaceous perennial plant, and native to Türkiye, central and southern Europe. The term "flavum" in the Latin name means "pure yellow" and describes the color of the plant's flowers. The size of the plant is usually less than 35 cm and can be seen between May and June in calcareous steppes, often between 500−1000 m. It is different from the other supspecies, its have thicker, glaucous median stem leaves and nerves and stems ridges scabrid.
References:
Anonymous (2017). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linum_flavum/Accessed date: 15.03.2017.
Ekim T (2012). Linum L., In: Güner, A., Aslan, S., Ekim, T., Vural, M. & Babaç, M.T. (eds.), Türkiye Bitkileri Listesi (Damarlı Bitkiler). Nezahat Gökyiğit Botanik Bahçesi ve Flora Araştırmaları Derneği Yayını. İstanbul, pp. 612–615.