Photographs: Ballingeary, Co.Cork

Fairy Flax Linum catharticum Lus na mban sí Family: Linaceae Flowering: June-September. Annual. Native. Very small white flowers with 5 un-notched petals, 5 narrow sepals. Leaves narrow oval, opposite. Very thin erect to straggly forked stems, sometimes reddish. Slender plant, easily overlooked when not flowering. Height: 5-20 cm Base-rich to mildly acidic ground. Grassland, dunes, heaths, rides in forestry plantations. Abundant throughout Ireland.

     
Photographs above: Ballingeary, Co.Cork. August 2007.