Index / Search / Linum usitatissimum
§1 Plant
Linum usitatissimum L.
vernacular common flax — species · Linaceae
§2Habit & range
Habit and range
- Growth habit
- Forb/herb
- Duration
- Annual
- Group
- Dicot
- Family
- Linaceae DC. ex Perleb
- Genus
- Linum
§2a
Native status, by region
- CAN Canada Introduced
- L48 Lower 48 States Introduced
§2b
County-level range
· 399 counties across 39 states/territories§3Cultivation
No cultivation specs.
USDA has not characterised this taxon. Roughly four out of five plants in the database lack the detailed cultivation record present here — typically because they have not been the focus of NRCS Plant Materials work. Range and distribution data are unaffected.
§4Counties, by state
Recorded in 399 counties across 39 states/territories.
Arizona view state ↗ 2 I ▾
Arkansas view state ↗ 1 I ▾
California view state ↗ 17 I ▾
Colorado view state ↗ 1 I ▾
District of Columbia view state ↗ 1 I ▾
Florida view state ↗ 6 I ▾
Illinois view state ↗ 24 I ▾
- Adams 17001
- Boone 17007
- Champaign 17019
- Christian 17021
- Coles 17029
- Cook 17031
- DeKalb 17037
- Douglas 17041
- DuPage 17043
- Greene 17061
- Jackson 17077
- Jo Daviess 17085
- Kane 17089
- Kendall 17093
- Lee 17103
- Macoupin 17117
- Marion 17121
- Peoria 17143
- Sangamon 17167
- St. Clair 17163
- Stark 17175
- Tazewell 17179
- Will 17197
- Winnebago 17201
Indiana view state ↗ 1 I ▾
Iowa view state ↗ 4 I ▾
Kansas view state ↗ 23 I ▾
- Anderson 20003
- Barton 20009
- Clay 20027
- Cloud 20029
- Cowley 20035
- Crawford 20037
- Doniphan 20043
- Douglas 20045
- Franklin 20059
- Greenwood 20073
- Jackson 20085
- Johnson 20091
- Leavenworth 20103
- Lyon 20111
- Marshall 20117
- Miami 20121
- Nemaha 20131
- Republic 20157
- Riley 20161
- Smith 20183
- Sumner 20191
- Trego 20195
- Wyandotte 20209
Kentucky view state ↗ 5 I ▾
Louisiana view state ↗ 12 I ▾
Maine view state ↗ 12 I ▾
Massachusetts view state ↗ 12 I ▾
Michigan view state ↗ 19 I ▾
Minnesota view state ↗ 29 I ▾
- Beltrami 27007
- Blue Earth 27013
- Brown 27015
- Carlton 27017
- Carver 27019
- Cass 27021
- Chippewa 27023
- Clay 27027
- Douglas 27041
- Faribault 27043
- Goodhue 27049
- Hennepin 27053
- Kandiyohi 27067
- Kittson 27069
- Lac qui Parle 27073
- Lake of the Woods 27077
- Marshall 27089
- McLeod 27085
- Mille Lacs 27095
- Otter Tail 27111
- Pennington 27113
- Pipestone 27117
- Sherburne 27141
- St. Louis 27137
- Stearns 27145
- Waseca 27161
- Watonwan 27165
- Wilkin 27167
- Winona 27169
Missouri view state ↗ 18 I ▾
Montana view state ↗ 10 I ▾
Nebraska view state ↗ 12 I ▾
New Hampshire view state ↗ 6 I ▾
New Jersey view state ↗ 10 I ▾
New York view state ↗ 24 I ▾
- Albany 36001
- Bronx 36005
- Cattaraugus 36009
- Chemung 36015
- Columbia 36021
- Cortland 36023
- Dutchess 36027
- Erie 36029
- Essex 36031
- Genesee 36037
- Kings 36047
- Livingston 36051
- Madison 36053
- Monroe 36055
- Nassau 36059
- New York 36061
- Oswego 36075
- Putnam 36079
- Queens 36081
- Richmond 36085
- Rockland 36087
- Suffolk 36103
- Ulster 36111
- Westchester 36119
North Carolina view state ↗ 8 I ▾
North Dakota view state ↗ 11 I ▾
Ohio view state ↗ 23 I ▾
- Ashtabula 39007
- Athens 39009
- Auglaize 39011
- Belmont 39013
- Crawford 39033
- Cuyahoga 39035
- Erie 39043
- Fayette 39047
- Franklin 39049
- Hamilton 39061
- Harrison 39067
- Highland 39071
- Holmes 39075
- Huron 39077
- Lake 39085
- Licking 39089
- Lorain 39093
- Pickaway 39129
- Richland 39139
- Sandusky 39143
- Summit 39153
- Tuscarawas 39157
- Williams 39171
Oregon view state ↗ 8 I ▾
Pennsylvania view state ↗ 23 I ▾
- Allegheny 42003
- Armstrong 42005
- Bedford 42009
- Berks 42011
- Bucks 42017
- Butler 42019
- Cambria 42021
- Carbon 42025
- Centre 42027
- Chester 42029
- Clarion 42031
- Crawford 42039
- Dauphin 42043
- Delaware 42045
- Indiana 42063
- Lancaster 42071
- Lawrence 42073
- Lehigh 42077
- McKean 42083
- Monroe 42089
- Montgomery 42091
- Northampton 42095
- Philadelphia 42101
Rhode Island view state ↗ 2 I ▾
South Carolina view state ↗ 2 I ▾
South Dakota view state ↗ 1 I ▾
Tennessee view state ↗ 3 I ▾
Texas view state ↗ 12 I ▾
Vermont view state ↗ 11 I ▾
Virginia view state ↗ 6 I ▾
Washington view state ↗ 6 I ▾
West Virginia view state ↗ 3 I ▾
Wisconsin view state ↗ 23 I ▾
- Ashland 55003
- Bayfield 55007
- Brown 55009
- Burnett 55013
- Dane 55025
- Door 55029
- Douglas 55031
- Grant 55043
- Green 55045
- Jefferson 55055
- Kenosha 55059
- Milwaukee 55079
- Ozaukee 55089
- Pierce 55093
- Portage 55097
- Price 55099
- Racine 55101
- Richland 55103
- Rock 55105
- Sheboygan 55117
- Trempealeau 55121
- Winnebago 55139
- Wood 55141
Wyoming view state ↗ 3 I ▾
§5Sources & provenance
USDA PLANTS
Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.
plants.usda.gov/LIUS ↗GBIF Backbone
Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.
gbif.org/species/2873861 ↗Record version
Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:
usda-plants-mt-2026-05-26
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