Linum lewisii
 
Wild Blue Flax

Leaf Top

Highway # 6 at Qu'Appelle Valley
06-June-2023

Lewisii:  Answers to key questions in Budd's Flora  and Flora of Alberta leading to this species.  

perennial; NOT annual

leaves linear; NOT [leaves lanceolate or linear lanceolate]

pedicels arching and spreading; NOT [pedicels erect]

sepals more than half as long as capsule

sepals blunt to short-acuminate; NOT [sepals long-acuminate]

inner sepals WITHOUT marginal glands

inner sepals NOT ciliate

flowers blue; NOT yellow

fruiting stalks 1-4 cm long; NOT [fruiting stalks 0.5-1 cm long]

 

Linaceae: Answers to key questions in Budd's Flora  leading to this family. 

herbs

plants terrestrial

plants NOT with colored milky juice

plants with more than one normal leaf

some or all leaves alternate; NOT [leaves opposite, whorled, or basal]

stipules absent or present as small, dark, spherical glands

NOT fleshy-leaved plants

flowers with two floral rings 

calyx regular

sepals 5

none of the sepals spurred

each petal distinct from the others

none of the petals spurred

stamens 5

stamens united at base

ovary superior; NOT inferior

carpels 5

fruit a capsule

fruit NOT explosive