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§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
· 184 counties across 22 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 184 counties across 22 states/territories.
Arizona view state ↗ 2 I ▾
Arkansas 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 ▾
Kentucky view state ↗ 5 I ▾
Louisiana view state ↗ 12 I ▾
Maine view state ↗ 12 I ▾
Massachusetts view state ↗ 12 I ▾
Montana view state ↗ 10 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 ▾
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 ▾
Tennessee view state ↗ 3 I ▾
Vermont view state ↗ 11 I ▾
Virginia view state ↗ 6 I ▾
West Virginia 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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