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§1 Plant
Linum lewisii Pursh
vernacular Lewis flax — species · Linaceae
§2Habit & range
Habit and range
- Growth habit
- Forb/herb, Subshrub
- Duration
- Perennial
- Group
- Dicot
- Family
- Linaceae DC. ex Perleb
- Genus
- Linum
§2a
Native status, by region
- AK Alaska Native
- CAN Canada Native
- L48 Lower 48 States Native
§2b
County-level range
· 331 counties across 22 states/territories§3Cultivation specs · USDA
Recorded by the USDA Plant Materials Program.
§3a
Tolerances
- Drought
- Medium
- Shade
- High
- Moisture use
- Medium
- Fire
- Low
- Salinity
- Low
- Anaerobic
- None
- CaCO₃
- High
- Hedging
- None
§3b
Climate & soil
- Cold tolerance
- -36 °F minimum
- Frost-free days
- 95 min.
- Precipitation
- 10–20 in/yr
- pH range
- 5.6–8.4
- Root depth
- 14 in min.
- Fertility need
- Low
- Soil texture
- coarse, medium
§3c
Form & growth
- Growth form
- Bunch
- Growth rate
- Moderate
- Lifespan
- Moderate
- Mature height
- 2.5 ft
- Foliage texture
- Medium
- Foliage colour
- Green
- Porosity (summer)
- Dense
- Porosity (winter)
- Porous
- Flower colour
- Blue
- Fruit colour
- Brown
- Fire resistant
- No
- N fixation
- None
- Toxicity
- None
§3d
Reproduction
- Bloom period
- Indeterminate
- Seed abundance
- Medium
- Seed begins
- Spring
- Seed ends
- Summer
- Spread rate
- Slow
- Stratify
- No
- Seeds / lb
- 294,848
- Propagation
- seed
§3e
Use & availability
- Commercial availability
- Routinely Available
- Nursery stock
- No
- Browse palatability
- Low
- Graze palatability
- High
- Palatable, human
- No
- Protein potential
- Medium
- Lumber
- No
- Christmas tree
- No
§4Counties, by state
Recorded in 331 counties across 22 states/territories.
Alaska view state ↗ 9 N ▾
Arizona view state ↗ 9 N ▾
California view state ↗ 34 N ▾
- Alpine 06003
- Butte 06007
- Calaveras 06009
- Colusa 06011
- Contra Costa 06013
- Del Norte 06015
- El Dorado 06017
- Fresno 06019
- Glenn 06021
- Inyo 06027
- Kern 06029
- Lake 06033
- Lassen 06035
- Mariposa 06043
- Mendocino 06045
- Modoc 06049
- Mono 06051
- Nevada 06057
- Placer 06061
- Plumas 06063
- Riverside 06065
- San Benito 06069
- San Bernardino 06071
- San Diego 06073
- San Luis Obispo 06079
- Santa Barbara 06083
- Shasta 06089
- Siskiyou 06093
- Sonoma 06097
- Tehama 06103
- Trinity 06105
- Tulare 06107
- Tuolumne 06109
- Ventura 06111
Colorado view state ↗ 39 N ▾
- Alamosa 08003
- Archuleta 08007
- Baca 08009
- Boulder 08013
- Conejos 08021
- Costilla 08023
- Custer 08027
- Delta 08029
- Dolores 08033
- Douglas 08035
- El Paso 08041
- Garfield 08045
- Gilpin 08047
- Grand 08049
- Gunnison 08051
- Huerfano 08055
- Jackson 08057
- Jefferson 08059
- La Plata 08067
- Lake 08065
- Larimer 08069
- Las Animas 08071
- Logan 08075
- Mesa 08077
- Mineral 08079
- Moffat 08081
- Montezuma 08083
- Montrose 08085
- Otero 08089
- Park 08093
- Pitkin 08097
- Pueblo 08101
- Rio Blanco 08103
- Routt 08107
- Saguache 08109
- San Juan 08111
- San Miguel 08113
- Summit 08117
- Teller 08119
Idaho view state ↗ 28 N ▾
- Ada 16001
- Adams 16003
- Bannock 16005
- Bear Lake 16007
- Bingham 16011
- Bonner 16017
- Bonneville 16019
- Boundary 16021
- Butte 16023
- Camas 16025
- Caribou 16029
- Cassia 16031
- Clark 16033
- Custer 16037
- Franklin 16041
- Fremont 16043
- Gem 16045
- Idaho 16049
- Kootenai 16055
- Lemhi 16059
- Lewis 16061
- Lincoln 16063
- Nez Perce 16069
- Oneida 16071
- Owyhee 16073
- Teton 16081
- Valley 16085
- Washington 16087
Iowa view state ↗ 1 N ▾
Kansas view state ↗ 2 N ▾
Louisiana view state ↗ 1 N ▾
Minnesota view state ↗ 7 N ▾
Montana view state ↗ 19 N ▾
Nebraska view state ↗ 3 N ▾
Nevada view state ↗ 15 N ▾
New Mexico view state ↗ 19 N ▾
North Dakota view state ↗ 34 N ▾
- Adams 38001
- Barnes 38003
- Benson 38005
- Billings 38007
- Bottineau 38009
- Bowman 38011
- Burke 38013
- Burleigh 38015
- Cass 38017
- Cavalier 38019
- Divide 38023
- Dunn 38025
- Eddy 38027
- Foster 38031
- Golden Valley 38033
- Grand Forks 38035
- Griggs 38039
- Kidder 38043
- McKenzie 38053
- McLean 38055
- Mercer 38057
- Morton 38059
- Mountrail 38061
- Oliver 38065
- Renville 38075
- Richland 38077
- Rolette 38079
- Sheridan 38083
- Slope 38087
- Stark 38089
- Steele 38091
- Towner 38095
- Ward 38101
- Williams 38105
Oklahoma view state ↗ 2 N ▾
Oregon view state ↗ 22 N ▾
South Dakota view state ↗ 7 N ▾
Texas view state ↗ 10 N ▾
Utah view state ↗ 29 N ▾
- Beaver 49001
- Box Elder 49003
- Cache 49005
- Carbon 49007
- Daggett 49009
- Davis 49011
- Duchesne 49013
- Emery 49015
- Garfield 49017
- Grand 49019
- Iron 49021
- Juab 49023
- Kane 49025
- Millard 49027
- Morgan 49029
- Piute 49031
- Rich 49033
- Salt Lake 49035
- San Juan 49037
- Sanpete 49039
- Sevier 49041
- Summit 49043
- Tooele 49045
- Uintah 49047
- Utah 49049
- Wasatch 49051
- Washington 49053
- Wayne 49055
- Weber 49057
Washington view state ↗ 16 N ▾
West Virginia view state ↗ 4 N ▾
Wyoming view state ↗ 21 N ▾
§5Sources & provenance
USDA PLANTS
Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.
plants.usda.gov/LILE3 ↗GBIF Backbone
Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.
gbif.org/species/2873876 ↗Record version
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