Linum bienne, Miller

Tutin, T. G., Heywood, V. H., Burges, N. A., Moore, D. M., Valentine, D. H., Walters, S. M. & Webb, D. A., 1981, Flora Europaea. Volume 2. Rosaceae to Umbelliferae, Cambridge University Press : 209

23. L. bienne Miller , Gard. Diet. ed. 8, no. 8 (1768)

(L. angustifolium Hudson ).

Biennial or perennial (rarely annual); stems 6-60 cm, usually branched, slender, ascending or erect. Leaves 0*5-1 *5 mm wide, linear or linear-lanceolate, acuminate, 1- to 3-veined. Sepals 4-5*5 mm, subequal, ovate-acuminate, with a conspicuous midvein; margin o f inner sepals scarious and ciliate, margin of outer sepals entire. Petals 2-3 times as long as sepals, blue. Stigmas linear. Capsule 4-6 mm, subglobose; beak c. 1 mm, acuminate. Homostylous. 2n= 30. W. & S. Europe, northwards to 54°2V. in Britain. Al BI Br Bu Co Cr Ga G r Hb Hs It Ju Lu Rs (K) Sa Si Tu.