Common flax
ಅಗಸೆನಾರುअलसी एक चमत्कारी, आयुवर्धक, आरोग्यवर्धक दैविक भोजनஆளி - செடி
Linum usitatissimum L.
- light
- Sun–part
- water
- Medium
- tall
- 97 cm
- wide
- 20 cm
Linaceae
When it flowers
Not known yet in the tropics: too few flowering observations to read a season from.
Read from iNaturalist photographs of it in flower. A month counts at 50% of the best month's flowering share (smoothed over three months) and 10% of its flowering count, from at least 100 flowering observations in the band.
If a child, a pet or anyone may have eaten a plant, contact a doctor or vet straight away, or call the National Poisons Information Centre (AIIMS, New Delhi) on 1800 116 117, free and open 24 hours.
Something wrong with it?About it
- Grows as
- AnnualKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- TemperateKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- Türkiye to IranKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Light
- Full sun to part shade (3 h or more)Read from NC State Extension, one source
- Height
- 97 cmRead from Wikipedia and Plants for a Future, checked: the middle of what its sources sayHalfway between its 2 sources, which differ. Sources differ: Wikipedia 1.2–1.2 m; Plants for a Future 0.7–0.7 m
- Spread
- 20 cmRead from Plants for a Future, one source
- Water
- Average: moist, well drainedRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Flowers
- BlueRead from NC State Extension, one source
Not known yet: coldest it survives, heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (12)
- Dutch
- Vlas
- Norwegian Bokmål
- lin, alminnelig lin
- Welsh
- llin
- Czech
- len setý
- Finnish
- peltopellava
- Polish
- len zwyczajny
- Slovenian
- navadni lan
- Chinese
- 亚麻, 亚麻子, 亞麻
- Simplified Chinese
- 亚麻, 壁虱胡麻, 山西胡麻
- Hindi
- अलसी एक चमत्कारी, आयुवर्धक, आरोग्यवर्धक दैविक भोजन, सन, तीसी
- Tamil
- ஆளி - செடி, ஆளி
- Telugu
- మదన గింజ
Where this comes from
- Wikidata, read 2026-10-26, CC0-1.0
- Kew's checklist, read 2026-10-24, CC-BY-4.0
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC0-1.0 (observation counts)
- NC State Extension, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikipedia, read 2026-10-26, fact, cited
- Plants for a Future, read 2026-10-26, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-25, CC BY-SA 3.0
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC0
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- 3D model: Linum usitatissimum (built for Vanagrha) by Vanagrha, own
A fact “checked by a majority of its sources” was settled by a vote of the pages it was read from, not by a person reading it; one marked “one source” rests on that page alone. Anything else not marked checked has not been checked yet. Where nothing is known, the page says so rather than guess.