blue flax

plural blue flaxes

1. Any from three species of flax:
   1. Linum lewisii, native to North America; Lewis flax or prairie flax.

      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.

      1968, Edward Abbey, “Tukuhnikivats, the Island in the Desert”, in Desert Solitaire: A Season in the Wilderness, McGraw-Hill; republished New York: Touchstone, 1968, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 222

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      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.

      1845, J[ohn] C[harles] Frémont, Report of the Exploring Expedition to the Rocky Mountains in the Year 1842, and to Oregon and North California in the Years 1843-’44, Washington: Gales and Seaton, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 133

   2. Linum narbonense.
   3. Linum perenne; lint.