Linum usitatissimum
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Based on Georgiades (1995).
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.
Cultivated for centuries.
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