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Linum usitatissimum

Linnaeus
Tracheophyta » Malpighiales » Linaceae » Linum usitatissimum
Common name (English)
Common flax
Ηabitat
I1 Arable
X10 Mixed landscapes
Global distribution

Portugal (I), Spain (I), Andorra (I), Baleares (I), France (I), Corsica (I), Sardinia (I), Sicily (I), Italy (I), Bosnia & Hercegovina (I), Serbia & Kosovo (I), Montenegro, Slovenia (I), Croatia (I), Macedonia (I), Slovakia (I), Greece (I), Algeria (I), Morocco (I), Tunisia (I), Libya (I), European Russia, Estonia (I), Northern Caucasus, Georgia [Caucasus], Siberia (W-Siberia), Kazakhstan (I), Kyrgyzstan (I), Japan (I), Costa Rica (I), India (I), Darjeeling (I), Sikkim (I), Jammu & Kashmir (I), Tibet (I), China (I), Korea (I), Nepal (I), Java (I), Australia (I) (Western Australia (I), Queensland (I), New South Wales (I), Victoria (I), Tasmania (I)), trop. Africa (I), Mozambique (I), Angola (I), Zimbabwe (I), New Guinea (alpine (I)), Thailand (I), Myanmar [Burma] (I), Vietnam (I), Peru (I), Haiti (I), Dominican Republic (I), Cuba (I), Ecuador (I), Chile (I), Mexico (I), Guatemala (I), Honduras (I), El Salvador (I), Juan Fdz. Isl. (I), Argentina (I), Brazil (I), Venezuela (I), Nicaragua (I), Colombia (I), Bolivia (I), Turkey (Inner Anatolia, N-Anatolia, S-Anatolia, WN-Anatolia), Cyprus (C-Mountains, E-Cyprus, N-Cyprus), European Turkey, Iran (E-Iran, Iranian Aserbaijan, S-Iran, W-Iran), Iraq (NE-Iraq, NW-Iraq, SE-Iraq: Mesopotamia), Lebanon (C-Lebanon, coastal W-Lebanon), Oman (Mascat & Oman), Saudi Arabia (Hejaz), Syria (coastal W-Syria, C-Syrian Desert), Yemen (W-Yemen), Afghanistan (Badakshan, Balkh, Bamyan, Takhar), Azores (I) (Santa Maria Isl. (I), Faial (I)), Madeira (I) (Madeira Isl. (I)), Canary Isl. (I) (Lanzarote (I), Gran Canaria (I), Tenerife (I), La Palma (I), La Gomera (I)), USA (I) (Alabama (I), Arkansas (I), Arizona (I), California (I), Colorado (I), Connecticut (I), District of Columbia (I), Delaware (I), Florida (I), Georgia (I), Iowa (I), Idaho (I), Illinois (I), Indiana (I), Kansas (I), Kentucky (I), Louisiana (I), Massachusetts (I), Maryland (I), Maine (I), Michigan (I), Minnesota (I), Missouri (I), Mississippi (I), Montana (I), North Carolina (I), North Dakota (I), Nebraska (I), New Hampshire (I), New Jersey (I), New Mexico (I), New York (I), Ohio (I), Oklahoma (I), Oregon (I), Pennsylvania (I), Rhode Island (I), South Carolina (I), South Dakota (I), Tennessee (I), Texas (I), Virginia (I), Vermont (I), Washington State (I), Wisconsin (I), West Virginia (I), Wyoming (I)), Canada (I) (Alberta (I), British Columbia (I), Manitoba (I), New Brunswick (I), Newfoundland (I), Nova Scotia (I), Northern Territories (I), Ontario (I), Prince Edward Isl. (I), Quebec (I), Saskatchewan (I)) 153662 0

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Habitat detail

Based on Georgiades (1995).

Establishment status
Not Established
Establishment status detail

Alien: Casual. In fields, on waste ground or by roadsides, sea-level to 3900' - an escape from cultivation or as a casual (nowhere truly wild) -see notes in Meikle on varieties. 

First detection year
1865
Pathway
2 ESCAPE FROM CONFINEMENT - Agriculture – Ag
Pathway detail

Cultivated for centuries.

References

Meikle RD (1977) Flora of Cyprus, Vol 1.

Georgiades C (1995) Η επιγενής χλωρίδα της Κύπρου. Ταξινομική, χλωριδικά, φυτογεωγραφική, οικοφυσιολογική μελέτη. [The adventive flora of Cyprus, taxonomic, floristic, phytogeographic, ecophysiological study]. Ph.D. Thesis, Athens University.

Hand R (2004) Supplementary notes to the flora of Cyprus IV. in Willdenowia 34(2): 427-456. https://doi.org/10.3372/wi.34.34210

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Joint Service Health Unit
University of Cyprus - Department of Biological Sciences
Darwin Initiative
Akrotiri Environment

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