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|accepted_name=Linum intercursum
|accepted_authority=E. P. Bicknell
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Bull. Torrey Bot. Club
|place=39: 418. 1912
|year=1912
}}
|common_names=Sandplain flax;Bicknell's yellow flax
|special_status={{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=E
|label=Endemic
}}
|basionyms=
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Cathartolinum intercursum
|authority=(E. P. Bicknell) Small
}}
|hierarchy=Linaceae;Linum;Linum sect. Linopsis;Linum intercursum
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Linaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Linum]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>section</small>[[Linum sect. Linopsis]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Linum intercursum]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 12
|mention_page=page 378, 383
|treatment_page=page 382
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Herbs </b>or subshrubs, perennial, 20–92 cm, glabrous. <b>Stems</b> erect, unbranched proximal to inflorescence or few-branched at base. <b>Leaves</b>: proximalmost opposite, distalmost alternate, sometimes opposite nearly to inflorescence, erect to ascending; stipular glands absent; blade narrowly elliptic to oblanceolate, 8–27 × 1.2–5.6 mm, margins entire, not ciliate, apex acute; internal venation shown by transmitted light. <b>Inflorescences</b> panicles. <b>Pedicels</b> 0–5 mm. <b>Flowers</b>: sepals persistent, lanceolate, 2–3 mm, margins not scarious, entire, or inner and rarely outer sparsely glandular-toothed, apex sharp-pointed; petals yellow, obovate, 4–7 mm; stamens 3 mm; anthers 0.5–1 mm; staminodia absent; styles distinct, 1.5–2.5 mm; stigmas capitate. <b>Capsules</b> turbinate, 2–3 × 2–2.3 mm, apex acute or obtuse, dehiscing freely into 10, sharp-pointed 1-seeded segments, segments persistent on plant, false septa incomplete, proximal margins sparsely but conspicuously ciliate. <b>Seeds</b> 1.3–1.8 × 0.6–0.9 mm. <b>2n</b> = 36.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering Jun–Oct.
|habitat=sometimes in alternately wet and dry, hardpan soils.
|elevation=0–800 m.
|distribution=Ala.;Conn.;Del.;D.C.;Ga.;Ind.;Md.;Mass.;N.J.;N.Y.;N.C.;Pa.;R.I.;S.C.;Tenn.;Va.
|discussion=<p><i>Linum intercursum</i> is sometimes confused with <i>L. floridanum</i>, from which it differs by its pointed capsule and broader leaves. All parts of the flower of <i>L. intercursum</i> are yellow, and the corolla is nearly rotate.</p>
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name=Linum intercursum
|author=
|authority=E. P. Bicknell
|rank=species
|parent rank=section
|synonyms=Cathartolinum intercursum
|basionyms=
|family=Linaceae
|phenology=Flowering Jun–Oct.
|habitat=sometimes in alternately wet and dry, hardpan soils.
|elevation=0–800 m.
|distribution=Ala.;Conn.;Del.;D.C.;Ga.;Ind.;Md.;Mass.;N.J.;N.Y.;N.C.;Pa.;R.I.;S.C.;Tenn.;Va.
|reference=None
|publication title=Bull. Torrey Bot. Club
|publication year=1912
|special status=Endemic
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|genus=Linum
|section=Linum sect. Linopsis
|species=Linum intercursum
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