Meaning of blue flax | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Any from three species of flax:
2. Linum lewisii, native to North America; Lewis flax or prairie flax.
3. Two very similar-looking species of perennial flax, native to Europe:
4. Linum narbonense.
5. Linum perenne; lint.

Examples

“We made our halt at noon in a fertile bottom, where the common blue flax was growing abundantly, a few miles below the mouth of Thomas’s fork, one of the larger tributaries of the river.”

“But if the animals are few the flowers are plentiful, especially in the open⟳ glades and along the brook, where I find⟳ clusters of larkspur, blue flax and Sego lilies.”

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