Garden blue flax
Garden blue flax
Linum perenne
Flax Family - Linaceae
Garden and wild blue flax (Linum lewisii) have similar features. Clusters of blue flowers on a leafy stems about 1 to 2 feet high. Flowers are five-petalled, about 1 inch in diameter, with five short sepals, which are unfringed. Many narrow, alternate and entire leaves, each about � to 1 inch long.
(Photographed at the Fletcher Wildlife Garden - July 24, 2002)
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