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Linum catharticum (fairy flax)

Synonyms: Linum pratense

Wikipedia Abstract

Linum catharticum, also known as purging flax, or fairy flax, is an herbaceous flowering plant in the family Linaceae, native to Great Britain, central Europe and Western Asia. It is an annual plant and blooms in July and August.
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Infraspecies

Linum catharticum catharticum
Linum catharticum suecicum

Attributes

Flower Type [1]  Hermaphrodite
Hazards [1]  Poisonous in large doses;
Lifespan [1]  Annual
Pollinators [1]  Flies, Bats
Structure [3]  Herb
Height [1]  10 inches (0.25 m)
Light Preference [2]  Mostly Sunny
Soil Acidity [2]  Neutral
Soil Fertility [2]  Infertile
Soil Moisture [2]  Moist
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Protected Areas

Predators

Providers

Pollinated by 
Episyrphus balteatus (Marmelade Fly)[6]
Melangyna novaezelandiae[6]
Platycheirus parvus[6]
Syritta pipiens (thick-legged hoverfly)[6]

External References

USDA Plant Profile

NatureServe Explorer

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Plants For A Future licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License
♦ 2ECOFACT 2a Technical Annex - Ellenberg’s indicator values for British Plants, M O Hill, J O Mountford, D B Roy & R G H Bunce (1999)
♦ 3Kattge, J. et al. (2011b) TRY - a global database of plant traits Global Change Biology 17:2905-2935
♦ 4Biological Records Centre Database of Insects and their Food Plants
♦ 5HOSTS - a Database of the World's Lepidopteran Hostplants Gaden S. Robinson, Phillip R. Ackery, Ian J. Kitching, George W. Beccaloni AND Luis M. Hernández
♦ 6Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics.
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Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0