Linum puberulum

Short description: Species of flowering plant

Linum puberulum

Scientific classification
Kingdom:  | Plantae
Clade:  | Tracheophytes
Clade:  | Angiosperms
Clade:  | Eudicots
Clade:  | Rosids
Order:  | Malpighiales
Family:  | Linaceae
Genus:  | Linum
Species:  |

L. puberulum

Binomial name
Linum puberulum

(Engelm.) A.Heller

Linum puberulum is a species of flax known by the common name plains flax. It is native to the western and midwestern United States from California to Nebraska to Texas , where it grows in dry, open habitat including desert, semi-desert, hills and low mountains. It is a downy-haired perennial herb producing an erect, branching stem lined with glandular linear leaves up to about 1 centimeter long. The inflorescence is a wide open cyme of golden yellow to yellow-orange flowers each with five petals 1 to 1.5 centimeters in length. The fruit is a capsule about 4 millimeters wide.

## Uses

The Zuni people squeeze the berry juice into the eye for inflammation.[1]

## References

1. ↑ Stevenson, Matilda Coxe 1915 Ethnobotany of the Zuni Indians. SI-BAE Annual Report #30 (p. 56)

## External links

* Jepson Manual Treatment
* Southwest Colorado Wildflowers
* Photo gallery

Wikidata ☰ Q6554958 entry

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