Wildflowers of Southern Arizona
Blue Flax.
Linum lewisii.
Flax (Linaceae) family.
The flowers are up to 2 inches (5 cm) across and homostylous (styles of all the same length) and have 5 broad, fan-shaped petals, styles longer than the stamens, 5 arrowhead-shaped anthers, and 5 spherical stigmas. The leaves are single-veined and linear to lanceolate in shape.
Catalina Mountains
Location: Box Camp Trail at trail head.
4/29/15
Notes: Sunset Trailhead 6/12/19.
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