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Linum extraaxillare; photograph Opioła Jerzy, CC BY 2.5, via Wikimedia Commons CC BYOpioła Jerzy, CC BY 2.5, via Wikimedia Commons

Linum extraaxillare Kit.

Linaceae · Czechoslovakia, Poland +5

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Linum extraaxillare, photograph Opioła Jerzy, CC BY 2.5, via Wikimedia CommonsLinum extraaxillare, photograph Opioła Jerzy, CC BY 2.5, via Wikimedia CommonsLinum extraaxillare, photograph Jerzy Opioła, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia CommonsLinum extraaxillare, photograph Jerzy Opioła, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia CommonsLinum extraaxillare, photograph Krzysztof Ziarnek, Kenraiz, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia CommonsLinum extraaxillare, photograph Krzysztof Ziarnek, Kenraiz, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons 12 photographs ›

About the genus · Linum

Linum (flax) is a genus of approximately 200 species in the flowering plant family Linaceae. They are native to temperate and subtropical regions of the world. The genus includes the common flax, the bast fibre of which is used to produce linen and the seeds to produce linseed oil.

Quoted from Wikipedia, "Linum", CC BY-SA 4.0.

Cultivation

Not checked: GBIF's records were not asked (why, under the name), and the habitat climate is read only from them, so no sheet is derived.

Climate across the habitat

Not checked. GBIF's records were not asked (why, under the name), and the habitat climate is read only from them, so none is derived here. This is not a statement that no climate exists.

Natural habitat

Native range as published by WCVP.
Records not checked: GBIF's records were not asked, as said under the name.
NativeCzechoslovakia, Poland, Albania, Bulgaria, Romania, Yugoslavia, Ukraine · regions are the level-3 units of the World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions, as Kew's World Checklist records ranges, some under historical names such as Yugoslavia or Czechoslovakia (how).
Kew's description“perennial” · “temperate” · quoted from WCVP, RBG Kew (CC BY 4.0); not derived here
Evidence usedGBIF's records not checked, as said under the name: so there are no points on the map, no map marker and no climate across the range; the range is Kew's. Not a statement that no record exists.

Photographs

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Photographs: Opioła Jerzy, CC BY 2.5, via Wikimedia Commons (2); Jerzy Opioła, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons; Jerzy Opioła, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons; Krzysztof Ziarnek, Kenraiz, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (2).

Similar habitat climate Not checked: GBIF's records were not asked (why, under the name), and the nearest habitat climates are read from the climate they give.

Other Linum 36 in the reference

Linum alpinum Linum alpinum Linaceae Photo: CC BY, Mitch Van DykeLinum amurense Linum amurense Linaceae Photo: CC BY, Maria KhorevaLinum arboreum Linum arboreum Tree flax Photo: CC BY, Eleftherios KatsillisLinum austriacum Linum austriacum Austrian flax Photo: CC BY, Christoph MoningLinum berlandieri Linum berlandieri Berlandier's yellow flax Photo: CC BY-SA, Brian FinzelLinum bienne Linum bienne Pale flax Photo: CC BY, dorianLinum campanulatum Linum campanulatum Linaceae Photo: CC BY-SA, Alessia GuggisbergLinum cariense Linum cariense Linaceae Photo: CC BY-SA, Ghislain118…Linum catharticum Linum catharticum Fairy flax Photo: CC BY, Oscar DoveLinum dolomiticum Linum dolomiticum Dolomite Flax Photo: CC0, author not statedLinum elegans Linum elegans Linaceae Photo: CC BY, LjažLinum flavum Linum flavum Golden flax Photo: CC0, author not stated all 37 ›

Names & registers

Also known as Linum perenne subsp. extraaxillare. (WCVP, RBG Kew)

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The record

Family
Linaceae
Described by
Kit.
Native to
Czechoslovakia, Poland, Albania +4
Records
not checked · GBIF's records were not asked: the page has no GBIF key

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Where this page came from built 2026-10-22
Kew's names (WCVP) kew.names answeredas of 2026-06-04Kew's entry Linum extraaxillare Kit. (plant_name_id 2347467), read from Kew's names file
GBIF species record gbif.species not askedGBIF's backbone holds no one accepted species of this name, and a name it holds only as another species' synonym is not taken for this one, so GBIF's records were not asked
GBIF synonyms gbif.synonyms not askedGBIF's backbone holds no one accepted species of this name, and a name it holds only as another species' synonym is not taken for this one, so GBIF's records were not asked
GBIF common names gbif.vernacular not askedGBIF's backbone holds no one accepted species of this name, and a name it holds only as another species' synonym is not taken for this one, so GBIF's records were not asked
GBIF occurrence records gbif.occurrences not askedGBIF's backbone holds no one accepted species of this name, and a name it holds only as another species' synonym is not taken for this one, so GBIF's records were not asked
WCVP native range wcvp.distribution answeredas of 2026-06-04
Habitat climate climate not askedGBIF's backbone holds no one accepted species of this name, and a name it holds only as another species' synonym is not taken for this one, so GBIF's records were not asked, and the habitat climate is read only from them
Wikidata wikidata answeredasked 2026-10-22found by Kew's IPNI identifier 544466-1, POWO 544466-1
Wikipedia wikipedia nothing to reportasked 2026-10-22
iNaturalist photographs, wild inat.photos.wild not asked
iNaturalist photographs, cultivated inat.photos.cultivated not asked
GBIF media gbif.media not askedGBIF's backbone holds no one accepted species of this name, and a name it holds only as another species' synonym is not taken for this one, so GBIF's records were not asked
Wikimedia Commons commons answeredasked 2026-10-22
OpenAlex papers openalex not askednot yet asked for this reference; a later fill takes the papers from OpenAlex's snapshot

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