Flax ID please

[alindsay]

Can't decide if this is just flax or pale flax. I have found the same plant, seemingly growing wild on the dock side at Barry, Wales and apparently left over from a cultivated crop in South Beds.

The one from Barry below

The stigma or are they the stamen are so sparkly blue and yet

The one fron South Beds below





I love the stigma, or are they stamen ...... they positively sparkle.

[Dorts]

I'd go for Cultivated Flax - Linum usitatissimum. With it now a subsidised crop, it is by far the commonest Flax found growing 'wild'.
Our two native blue Linums are now quite scarce.
Dorts.

[alindsay]

I'm comfortable with that.

Thanks Dorts