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Family	Scientific Name	Common Name	Habitat	Distribution	Image
Linaceae	Linum alatum	Winged Flax	Open, sandy areas.	Se. and s. TX (and w. LA?) and Mexico (ne. TAM); allegedly disjunct in sc. OK.
Linaceae	Linum arenicola	Sand Flax	Pine rocklands, marl prairies, disturbed areas over limestone.	Endemic to s. peninsular FL (Miami-Dade and Monroe counties).
Linaceae	Linum berlandieri var. berlandieri	Berlandier's Yellow Flax	Sandy or gravelly prairies.	NE south through KS and e. CO to sw. LA, TX, e. NM, and Mexico.
Linaceae	Linum berlandieri var. filifolium		Sandy, rocky, or calcareous soils.	S. TX, w. Txand se. NM south into Mexico.
Linaceae	Linum bienne	Blue Flax	Cultivated, rarely escaped to disturbed areas; also ballast.	Native of Mediterranean Europe.
Linaceae	Linum carteri	Carter’s Flax, Everglades Flax	Pine rocklands.	Endemic to s. peninsular FL (Miami-Dade County).
Linaceae	Linum catharticum	White Flax, Fairy Flax	Ballast waifs (in our region).	Native of Europe.
Linaceae	Linum curtissii	Texas Yellow Flax	Woodlands, other dry to moist places.	S. ME, MI, and n. IL south to s. FL and TX; West Indies.
Linaceae	Linum elongatum
Linaceae	Linum floridanum var. chrysocarpum	Yellow-fruited Yellow Flax	Very wet loamy pine savannas.	Se. NC south to s. FL and west to s. MS.
Linaceae	Linum floridanum var. floridanum	Florida Yellow Flax	Wet pine savannas, sandhill seeps.	E. VA south to s. FL and west to LA and e. TX, essentially limited to the Coastal Plain; West Indies (Jamaica).
Linaceae	Linum grandiflorum	Red Flax	Disturbed areas.	Native of n. Africa.
Linaceae	Linum harperi	Harper's Grooved Flax	Dry to mesic longleaf pine savannas and flatwoods.	FL Panhandle, s. GA, and s. AL. The last apparent collection of this taxon was collected from Conecuh Co., AL (A.R. Diamond 13442) in 2002. Specimens from GA (R. Harper) are likely historical, but Godfrey's and Anderson's specimens may point to current extant populations of L. harperi (L. sulcatum var. harperi at varietal rank).
Linaceae	Linum hudsonioides	Texas Flax	Sandy or gravelly prairies.	KS south to s. TX and NM.
Linaceae	Linum imbricatum	Tufted Flax	Sandy or rocky areas.	Sc. OK south through c. and ec. TX to s. TX.
Linaceae	Linum intercursum	Bicknell's Yellow Flax, Sandplain Flax	Woodlands, other dry to moist places.	MA south to c. TN, nw. GA, and c. AL; from MA to MD, nearly restricted to the Coastal Plain, in VA, NC, SC, GA, AL, and se. TN, however it is primarily on the Piedmont and Mountains. It also occurs disjunctly in n. IN near the Great Lakes.
Linaceae	Linum lewisii var. lewisii	Prairie Flax	Calcareous glades and barrens.	NU west to AK, south to MI, nw. AR, ne. TX, NM, AZ, CA, and n. Mexico; disjunct at Smoke Hole Caverns, WV, and several adjacent counties.
Linaceae	Linum lundellii		Sandy loam in arroyos, gravelly hillsides, mesquite scrub woodlands.	S. TX south to NLE and TAM.
Linaceae	Linum macrocarpum	Spring Hill Flax	Pitcher plant bogs, wet savannas.	FL Panhandle west through s. AL and s. MS to se. LA.
Linaceae	Linum medium	Stiff Yellow Flax	Lake (sand) plains.	ON and (reportedly) nw. PA (Presque Isle).
Linaceae	Linum perenne	Perennial Flax	Disturbed areas.	Native of Europe. Cultivated and "rarely naturalized along roadsides" in scattered locations in PA (Rhoads & Klein 1993; Rhoads & Block 2007) and reported tentatively for VA (Kartesz 1999).
Linaceae	Linum pratense	Meadow Flax	Rocky limestone or sandy prairies.	KS and CO south to c. TX, s, NM, s. AZ, and Mexico (AGS).
Linaceae	Linum rigidum var. rigidum	Large-flowered Flax	Rocky or sandy prairies, rarely calcareous prairies, open woodlands.	MN, MB, SK, and AB south to OK, nc. TX, and NM.
Linaceae	Linum rupestre	Rock Flax	Limestone outcrops.	Nc. TX and c. NM south to s. TX and s. Mexico.
Linaceae	Linum smallii	Small’s Flax	Marl prairies and pine rocklands.	Endemic to s. peninsular FL.
Linaceae	Linum striatum	Ridgestem Yellow Flax	Bogs, seepages, other wet places, often growing in Sphagnum.	MA, PA, MI, and IL south to Panhandle FL, LA, and e. TX.
Linaceae	Linum sulcatum	Grooved Yellow Flax	Prairies; eastwards in dry rocky woodlands, barrens, and blackland prairies over calcareous, mafic, or ultramafic rocks (and sometimes also weedy in adjacent disturbed areas).	Primarily a species of the Great Plains of WI, MN, and s. ON, s. MB, WI, MN, and ND, to LA and TX, L. sulcatum occurs farther east (to MA, VA, NC, and AL) as a rare disjunct on glades or barrens over rocks such as limestone or diabase.
Linaceae	Linum usitatissimum	Common Flax, Cultivated Flax, Linaza	Roadsides, other disturbed places, not long persisting after agricultural use.	Native of Europe.
Linaceae	Linum virginianum	Virginia Yellow Flax	Dry or moist places.	MA, NY, ON, MI, and IL south to SC, GA, AL, and MO.
Linaceae	Linum westii	West’s Flax	Bogs (seepage slopes), margins of flatwoods ponds.	Ne. FL; Panhandle FL.