Linum puberulum
Linum puberulum is a species of flax known by the common name plains flax. It is native to the western and midwestern United States from California to Nebraska to Texas, where it grows in dry, open habitat including desert, semi-desert, hills and low mountains. It is a downy-haired perennial herb producing an erect, branching stem lined with glandular linear leaves up to about 1 centimeter long. The inflorescence is a wide open cyme of golden yellow to yellow-orange flowers each with five petals 1 to 1.5 centimeters in length. The fruit is a capsule about 4 millimeters wide.
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Kingdom: | Plantae |
Clade: | Tracheophytes |
Clade: | Angiosperms |
Clade: | Eudicots |
Clade: | Rosids |
Order: | Malpighiales |
Family: | Linaceae |
Genus: | Linum |
Species: | L. puberulum |
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Uses
The Zuni people squeeze the berry juice into the eye for inflammation.[1]
gollark: They're highly intelligent, so they have *one* goroutine constantly read a websocket and write to a channel, *one* goroutine read a TCP socket and write to a channel, and *another* goroutine CONSTANTLY POLLING ALL THE CHANNELS.
gollark: On that note, I don't understand how anyone but a Go programmer could have written this code.
gollark: Yep.
gollark: go_concurrency_primitives_irl
gollark: Oh, I see, that APIARY literally made it into a busy loop.
References
- Stevenson, Matilda Coxe 1915 Ethnobotany of the Zuni Indians. SI-BAE Annual Report #30 (p. 56)
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