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|accepted_name=Linum vernale
|accepted_authority=Wooton
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Bull. Torrey Bot. Club
|place=25: 452. 1898
|year=1898
|other_info_on_pub=(as vernall)
}}
|common_names=Chihuahuan or red-eye flax
|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Linaceae;Linum;Linum sect. Linopsis;Linum vernale
|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 vernale]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 12
|mention_page=page 379, 387
|treatment_page=page 388
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Herbs,</b> annual, 10–50 cm, glabrous. <b>Stems</b> ascending to erect, branched at base and in inflorescence. <b>Leaves</b> alternate or proximal leaves opposite, divergent to ascending; stipular glands usually present, sometimes absent; blade linear, 8–17 × 0.5–1.3 mm, margins entire, with widely spaced glandular hairs, apex acute. <b>Inflorescences</b> open panicles. <b>Pedicels</b> 2–12 mm. <b>Flowers</b>: sepals persistent, lanceolate to narrowly lanceolate, 4–7.5 mm, margins narrowly scarious or not, inner sepals abundantly glandular-toothed, outer sparsely toothed, apex narrowly acute; petals yellow-orange to salmon with maroon base, broadly obovate, 10–17 mm; stamens 4–8 mm; anthers 1–1.8 mm; staminodia absent; styles connate to within 0.2 mm of apex, 4–8 mm; stigmas capitate. <b>Capsules</b> ovoid, 3–4 × 2.5–3.2 mm, apex depressed, dehiscing completely into 5, 2-seeded segments (very easily crushed), segments persistent on plant, false septa incomplete, proximal margins terminating in loose fringe. <b>Seeds</b> 2–2.8 × 0.9–1.3 mm. <b>2n</b> = 30.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering Mar–Sep.
|habitat=Limestone soils, bajadas, openings in scrublands and woodlands.
|elevation=1200–2400 m.
|distribution=N.Mex.;Tex.;Mexico (Chihuahua;Coahuila).
|discussion=<p>Corollas of <i>Linum vernale</i> are broadly bowl-shaped and yellow-orange to salmon with a maroon base. The filaments and styles are pale pink, and the stigmas are dark maroon. The pollen is bright yellow; on herbarium specimens, the anthers appear to be maroon.</p>
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name=Linum vernale
|authority=Wooton
|rank=species
|parent rank=section
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Linaceae
|phenology=Flowering Mar–Sep.
|habitat=Limestone soils, bajadas, openings in scrublands and woodlands.
|elevation=1200–2400 m.
|distribution=N.Mex.;Tex.;Mexico (Chihuahua;Coahuila).
|reference=None
|publication title=Bull. Torrey Bot. Club
|publication year=1898
|special status=
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|genus=Linum
|section=Linum sect. Linopsis
|species=Linum vernale
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