Fairy Flax
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Linum catharticum
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May onwards
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An annual or bennial herb of dry, infertile calcareous or base-rich substrates, but also found in flushed sites on neutral or mildly acidic soils. It occurs in a wide range of calcareous grasslands, mires and flushes, in short-sedge fen-meadows, on outcrops and ledges of basic rock, road cuttings, quarry spoil and lead-mine debris, and very locally on dry heaths. 0-840 m (Breadalbanes, Mid Perth).
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Flax-Seed
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Radiola linoides
(Linum radiola, Millegrana radiola)
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July-August
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A small annual of damp, bare, infertile, peaty or sandy ground in acid grasslands and heaths, by ponds, on tracks and in woodland rides. Near the coast it occurs in dune-slacks, sandy grassland, on machair, and in soil-filled rock cracks. Lowland. It is often with Chaffweed of the Primrose Family.
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Pale Flax
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Linum bienne
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May-September
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An annual, biennial or short-lived perennial herb of dry grassy places and grassland-scrub mosaics, chiefly near the sea; its habitats include cliff-slopes and coombes, path and field margins, roadsides, railway banks and old quarries. It appears to favour warm, sheltered, S.-facing slopes and relatively infertile, drought-prone soils. Lowland.
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Flower from Berry Head in Devon in May
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Flower Buds from Berry Head in Devon in May
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Foliage
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Form from Berry Head in Devon in May
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