Plants of South Eastern New South Wales

Linum marginale

Flower. Photographer Steve Burrows, Bournda National Park

Flowering stgems. Photographer Don Wood, Wallaga Lake north of Bermagui

Flowering stems. Australian Plant Image Index, photographer Murray Fagg, Adaminaby

Common name

Native flax, Wild flax

Family

Linaceae

Where found

Forest, woodland, heath, grassy areas, herbfields, gullies, along streams, and swamp margins. Widespread.

Notes

Perennial herb to 1 m tall. Stems hairless, striate. Leaves alternating up the stems, 0.5-2.2 cm long, 1-3 mm wide, hairless, margins entire, tips pointed. Flowers with 5 blue, occasionally white, petals, each to 15 mm long. Flowers in loose clusters or single. Flowers mostly Spring to Summer.

All native plants on unleased land in the ACT are protected.

PlantNET description:   http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Linum~marginale (accessed 22 January, 2021)