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Linum bienne

Te Paki.<br>Photographer: Jeremy R. Rolfe, Date taken: 09/11/2007, Licence: <a target='_blank' href='https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0'>CC BY</a>. <a class='member-message' href='/nzpcn/why-join-nzpcn/' target='_blank'>Members can view a larger version of this image.</a>

Kuripapango, Hawkes Bay.<br>Photographer: Mike Thorsen, Licence: All rights reserved. <a class='member-message' href='/nzpcn/why-join-nzpcn/' target='_blank'>Members can view a larger version of this image.</a>

Linum bienne.<br>Photographer: John Smith-Dodsworth, Licence: <a target='_blank' href='https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0'>CC BY-NC</a>.

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Common names

pale flax

Biostatus

Exotic

Structural class

Herbs - Dicotyledons other than Composites

Flower colours

Violet/Purple, White

Conservation status

Not applicable

Detailed taxonomy

Family

Linaceae

Authority

Linum bienne Mill.

Ecology

Year naturalised

1870

Origin

W. Europe, Mediterranean to Caucasia, Iraq, Iran

Other information

Etymology

linum: Flax

bienne: From Latin ‘biennium’, meaning two year period, biennial

NVS code

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