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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