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Linum
flax
- Height 1-2 ft (30-60 cm)
- Planting distance 6 in (15 cm)
- Flowers early to late summer
- Well-drained garden soil
- Open, sunny site
- Hardy annual
Flaxes have elegant brightly colored flowers and slender fresh green
leaves. Linum grandiflorum, the most widely grown of the annual species,
displays rose-red cup-shaped flowers from early to late summer in
moderate climates. Elsewhere, this is an early-summer flower.
Popular species and cultivars
Cultivars are more popular than the species.
'Bright Eyes' has ivory-white flowers with crimson centers. It is up to
11/2 ft (45 cm) high.
'Rubrum' (scarlet flax) grows about 1 ft (30 cm) high, with brilliant
crimson satiny flowers.
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