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|accepted_name=Linum kingii
|accepted_authority=S. Watson
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Botany (Fortieth Parallel),
|place=49. 1871
|year=1871
}}
|common_names=King's flax;perennial yellow flax
|special_status={{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=F
|label=Selected by author to be illustrated
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|code=E
|label=Endemic
}}
|basionyms=
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Cathartolinum kingii
|authority=(S. Watson) Small
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|name=Mesyniopsis kingii
|authority=(S. Watson) W. A. Weber
}}
|hierarchy=Linaceae;Linum;Linum sect. Linopsis;Linum kingii
|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 kingii]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 12
|mention_page=page 378, 389
|treatment_page=page 382
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Herbs,</b> perennial, caudex woody, 5–30 cm, glabrous and glaucous. <b>Stems</b> ascending to erect from decumbent base, branched from base. <b>Leaves</b>: alternate throughout or proximal opposite, divergent, erect or spreading; stipular glands absent; blade narrowly lanceolate, 5–25 × 1–3 mm, thick (basal leaves), margins entire, not ciliate, apex rounded to subacute; 1-nerved. <b>Inflorescences</b> panicles or thyrses. <b>Pedicels</b> 1–5 mm. <b>Flowers</b>: sepals persistent, lanceolate to ovate or broadly oblong, 2.5–4.5 mm, margins not scarious, inner glandular-toothed, outer entire or sparsely glandular-toothed near apex, apex acute to ± obtuse, not acuminate; petals bright yellow, oblanceolate to obovate, 5–12 mm; stamens 3–8 mm; anthers 1.5–2.5 mm; staminodia absent; styles distinct, 4–7 mm; stigmas capitate. <b>Capsules</b> ovoid-pyriform, 2.3–4 × 2.8–3.6 mm, apex pointed (easily crushed), freely dehiscing into 10, 1-seeded segments, segments persistent on plant, false septa incomplete, proximal margins ciliate. <b>Seeds</b> 2–2.7 × 1–1.4 mm. <b>2n</b> = 26.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering May–Aug.
|habitat=Open slopes, often on barren alkaline clay or rocky calcareous substrates.
|elevation=1400–3400 m.
|distribution=Colo.;Idaho;Nev.;Utah;Wyo.
|discussion=<p><i>Linum kingii</i> is low, compact, and much branched. All parts of the flowers are yellow. The corolla is nearly rotate, the petals are abruptly narrowed to a claw, the styles are at right angles to the flower axis, and the anthers are relatively large. <i>Linum kingii</i> is extremely variable in habit and in size of floral and vegetative parts, even within a population or within a single plant (C. M. Rogers 1984).</p>
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name=Linum kingii
|author=
|authority=S. Watson
|rank=species
|parent rank=section
|synonyms=Cathartolinum kingii;Mesyniopsis kingii
|basionyms=
|family=Linaceae
|phenology=Flowering May–Aug.
|habitat=Open slopes, often on barren alkaline clay or rocky calcareous substrates.
|elevation=1400–3400 m.
|distribution=Colo.;Idaho;Nev.;Utah;Wyo.
|reference=None
|publication title=Botany (Fortieth Parallel),
|publication year=1871
|special status=Selected by author to be illustrated;Endemic
|source xml=https://jpend@bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation.git/src/f6b125a955440c0872999024f038d74684f65921/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V12/V12_498.xml
|genus=Linum
|section=Linum sect. Linopsis
|species=Linum kingii
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