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Internal ID UUID64404788a70e1167783514
Scientific name Linum lewisii
Authority Pursh
First published in Fl. Amer. Sept. 1: 210 (1813)

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Scientific name Authority First published in
Linum sibiricum var. lewisii (Pursh) Lindl. Bot. Reg. 14: t. 1163 (1828)
Linum perenne f. albiflorum Cockerell W. Amer. Sci. 3: 217 1887
Linum lewisii f. albiflorum (Cockerell) H.St.John Fl. S.-e. Washington (St. John) 244. 1937
Linum perenne subsp. lewisii (Pursh) Hultén Acta Univ. Lund., 2 , 43(1): 1122 (1947)
Linum perenne var. lewisii (Pursh) Eaton & C.Wright Man. Bot. N. States , ed. 8: 302 (1840)
Adenolinum lewisii (Pursh) Á.Löve & D.Löve Taxon 31: 348 (1982)

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Language Common/alternative name
English lewis flax
English blue flax
English wild blue flax
Arabic كتان لويس
Bengali লিনাম লুইস
Persian کتان لوئیسی
nv diniʼeechʼil áłtsʼóózígíí
Chinese 刘氏亚麻

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Linum lewisii var. alpicola Jeps. Fl. Calif. 2: 398 (1936)
Linum lewisii var. lepagei (B.Boivin) C.M.Rogers Phytologia 41: 448 (1979)
Linum lewisii var. lewisii Unknown

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Sow seeds at 20°C, expecting germination within 3 months without further temperature treatment.
Resents Transplanting: These plants do not tolerate the disturbance of their roots well. It's best to sow these seeds in their final growing location or in a container from which they can be moved without disturbing the root ball.

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  • Northern America
    • Eastern Canada
      • Ontario
      • Québec
    • Mexico
      • Mexico Northeast
      • Mexico Northwest
    • North-central U.S.A.
      • Kansas
      • Minnesota
      • Missouri
      • Nebraska
      • North Dakota
      • Oklahoma
      • South Dakota
    • Northeastern U.S.A.
      • West Virginia
    • Northwestern U.S.A.
      • Colorado
      • Idaho
      • Montana
      • Oregon
      • Washington
      • Wyoming
    • South-central U.S.A.
      • New Mexico
      • Texas
    • Southeastern U.S.A.
      • Arkansas
      • Louisiana
    • Southwestern U.S.A.
      • Arizona
      • California
      • Nevada
      • Utah
    • Subarctic America
      • Alaska
      • Northwest Territorie
      • Nunavut
      • Yukon
    • Western Canada
      • Alberta
      • British Columbia
      • Manitoba
      • Saskatchewan

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Database ID/link to page
World Flora Online wfo-0001073419
Canadensys 6551
USDA Plants LILE3
Tropicos 18700040
KEW urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:140855-2
The Plant List tro-18700040
Open Tree Of Life 969831
NCBI Taxonomy 586382
Nature Serve 2.148027
IPNI 140855-2
iNaturalist 60490
GBIF 2873876
Freebase /m/09fl9r
FEIS plants/forb/linlew
EPPO LIULE
EOL 581593
Calflora (Californian flora) 4908
USDA GRIN 22342
Wikipedia Linum_lewisii

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Accession Assembly
Name Level Submitter Released Coverage Size
GCA_034768395.1 NDSU_LiLewi_1.0 Chromosome North Dakota State University 2023-12-29 30 613.24 Mb

Scientific Literature Top

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Title Authors Publication Released IDs
Survival analysis of freezing stress in the North American native perennial flax, Linum lewisii Gossweiler AD, Smart BC, Hulke BS AoB Plants 05-Apr-2024
PMCID:PMC11070878
doi:10.1093/aobpla/plae022
PMID:38716380
Breaking Dormancy and Increasing Restoration Success of Native Penstemon Species Using Gibberellic Acid Seed Coatings and U-Shaped Furrows Johnson AJ, Geary B, Hulet A, Madsen MD Plants (Basel) 28-Nov-2023
PMCID:PMC10708350
doi:10.3390/plants12234005
PMID:38068639
Phytohormones and candidate genes synergistically regulate fruitlet abscission in Areca catechu L. Li J, Chen Y, Zhou G, Li M BMC Plant Biol 03-Nov-2023
PMCID:PMC10623784
doi:10.1186/s12870-023-04562-8
PMID:37919647
Comparison of nutritional quality of fourteen wild Linum species based on fatty acid composition, lipid health indices, and chemometric approaches unravelling their nutraceutical potential Plaha NS, Kaushik N, Awasthi S, Singh M, Kaur V, Langyan S, Kumar A, Kalia S Heliyon 19-Oct-2023
PMCID:PMC10623282
doi:10.1016/j.heliyon.2023.e21192
PMID:37928019
A pathogen's spatial range is not constrained by geographical features in the flax rust pathosystem Duggal K, Miller I, Jiranek J, Metcalf J Ecol Evol 09-Oct-2023
PMCID:PMC10560871
doi:10.1002/ece3.10577
PMID:37818245
Mechanistic models to meet the challenge of climate change in plant–pathogen systems Jiranek J, Miller IF, An R, Bruns E, Metcalf CJ Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci 06-Feb-2023
PMCID:PMC9900714
doi:10.1098/rstb.2022.0017
PMID:36744564
Ecological Restoration Practices within a Semi-arid Natural Gas Field Improve Insect Abundance and Diversity during Early and Late Growing Season Curran MF, Sorenson JR, Craft ZA, Crow TM, Robinson TJ, Stahl PD Animals (Basel) 29-Dec-2022
PMCID:PMC9817726
doi:10.3390/ani13010134
PMID:36611743
Predicting the effects of climate change on the cross-scale epidemiological dynamics of a fungal plant pathogen Miller IF, Jiranek J, Brownell M, Coffey S, Gray B, Stahl M, Metcalf CJ Sci Rep 01-Sep-2022
PMCID:PMC9437057
doi:10.1038/s41598-022-18851-z
PMID:36050344
Linum lewisii Adventitious and Hairy-Roots Cultures as Lignan Plant Factories Dougué Kentsop RA, Consonni R, Alfieri M, Laura M, Ottolina G, Mascheretti I, Mattana M Antioxidants (Basel) 05-Aug-2022
PMCID:PMC9404846
doi:10.3390/antiox11081526
PMID:36009248
Assessment of biogeographic variation in traits of Lewis flax (Linum lewisii) for use in restoration and agriculture Innes P, Gossweiler A, Jensen S, Tilley D, St. John L, Jones T, Kitchen S, Hulke BS AoB Plants 04-Feb-2022
PMCID:PMC8906388
doi:10.1093/aobpla/plac005
PMID:35273788
Soil Humus, Iron, Sulphate and Magnesium Content Affect Nectar Traits of Wild Garlic (Allium ursinum L.) Bodó A, Farkas Á, Nagy DU, Rudolf K, Hoffmann R, Kocsis M, Morschhauser T Plants (Basel) 22-Mar-2021
PMCID:PMC8004594
doi:10.3390/plants10030597
PMID:33810174
Use of auto‐germ to model germination timing in the sagebrush‐steppe Richardson WC, Whitaker DR, Sant KP, Barney NS, Call RS, Roundy BA, Aanderud ZT, Madsen MD Ecol Evol 14-Nov-2018
PMCID:PMC6303710
doi:10.1002/ece3.4591
PMID:30598754
Hemiparasitic plants increase alpine plant richness and evenness but reduce arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal colonization in dominant plant species McKibben M, Henning JA PeerJ 07-Nov-2018
PMCID:PMC6228546
doi:10.7717/peerj.5682
PMID:30425882
A Hypothetical Bottleneck in the Plant Microbiome Newcombe G, Harding A, Ridout M, Busby PE Front Microbiol 31-Jul-2018
PMCID:PMC6080073
doi:10.3389/fmicb.2018.01645
PMID:30108556
Nitrogen and carbon isotopic dynamics of subarctic soils and plants in southern Yukon Territory and its implications for paleoecological and paleodietary studies Tahmasebi F, Longstaffe FJ, Zazula G, Bennett B PLoS One 16-Aug-2017
PMCID:PMC5559067
doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0183016
PMID:28813532

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