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Linaceae (Flax Family) 2 images Created 12 Jun 2013

A collection of wild native North American wildflowers photographed in their natural environment belonging to the flax family: Linaceae.
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  • The western blue flax is a widespread native member of the flax family and is found across nearly all of the western half of North America, from Mexico to the Arctic circle. This one was photographed in rural central Wyoming.
    Western Blue Flax
  • Found all over western North America plus Michigan and West Virginia, this native flax is found as far north as Alaska and the Northwest Territories in Canada, all the way south to Mexico's Baja California. It prefers dry climates in open grasslands, sagebrush steppes and both ponderosa pine and Douglas-fir forests. It has been recorded that the Nlaka'pamux Indians of Southern British Columbia and Northern Washington State used to boil parts of this plant to make a hair and scalp tonic. This one was found in growing along the side of Umtanum Creek below the Cascade Mountains north of Yakima, Washington.
    Western Blue Flax