Linum ustatissimum

Linum ustatissimum Cultivated flax

Lino cultivado

This pretty blue Flax flowers from April to June. In cooler climes it is cultivated as a food and fibre crop, in the production of linen. The oil is known as linseed oil. They can grow to over a metre in height. Sometimes they seed themselves and escape to the wild, as this plant.

Linum tenue

Linum tenue Yellow flax

Lino

This flax flowers from April to August and is native to SW Mediterranean and the Atlas mountains of Morocco

Linum suffruticosum

Linum suffruticosum White flax

Lino blanco

March to June

This beautiful white flax fills the rocks and crevices creating large white frothy clumps. It is native to Spain, France, Italy and North Africa. The buds are cream, and then open to pure white flowers. It grows from 30cm to 1 metre tall. Flowering profusely at the moment, beginning of June.

Linum suffruticosum

Linum suffruticosum White flax

Lino blanco

March to June

Linum strictum

Linum strictum Upright yellow Flax

Linillo

This small herbaceous plant flowers from March to June and grows to a height of 10~30cms tall. It is native to southern Europe.

Linum bienne

Linum bienne Pale Flax

Lino

This pale blue flax flowers from April to July and is native to the west Mediterranean and northern Europe.