Linum tenuifolium, L.

Tutin, T. G., Heywood, V. H., Burges, N. A., Moore, D. M., Valentine, D. H., Walters, S. M. & Webb, D. A., 1981, Flora Europaea. Volume 2. Rosaceae to Umbelliferae, Cambridge University Press : 210

32. L. tenuifolium L. , Sp. Pl. 278 (1753).

Glabrous (or sometimes hairy) perennial with few short non-flowering shoots; stems (10-)20-45 cm, erect, ascending or decumbent, slightly branched below. Leaves 0-5-1 (-2) mm wide, linear, 1 -veined; leaf-margins rough, minutely serrulate, flat or slightly inrolled. Sepals 5-8 mm, lanceolate-acuminate, 1-veined, with glandular- ciliate, minutely serrulate margins. Petals 2 -2 | times as long as sepals, pink or almost white. Styles patent; stigmas capitate. Capsule 2-7-3-5(-4) mm, subglobose; beak c. 0-7 mm, acuminate. Homostylous. 2/z= 16, 18. C. & S. Europe, extending northwards to Belgium and C. Ukraine. Al Au Be Bu Co Cz Ga Ge Gr He Hs Hu It Ju Po Rm Rs (W, K, E) Sa Si Tu.