Blue Flax Blossom

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Blue Flax Blossom

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Iris Richardson

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Photograph - Photography

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A beautiful single blue flax blossom against a rich warm brown background horizontal orientation.
Blue flax is a short-lived perennial with blue-green needlelike leaves on graceful 2-foot-tall stems.
According to Victorian interpretation, flax and its flowers symbolize the domestic front. It’s a flower that symbolizes the home.
Satiny sky blue flowers, borne on wiry stems, appear in late spring, last through mid-summer, and open fully only on sunny days. Small rounded seedheads form in summer.
Linum lewisii (Linum perenne var. lewisii) (Lewis flax, blue flax or prairie flax) is a perennial plant in the family Linaceae, native to western North America from Alaska south to Baja California, and from the Pacific Coast east to the Mississippi River (USDA Plant Profile: Linum lewisii). It grows on ridges and dry slopes, from sea level in the north up to 11,000 ft (3,400 m) in the Sierra Nevada.
Folks tales, he usefulness of flax is primarily in producing yarn for clothe and so it has a number of superstitions related to the spinning of the yarn. In Germany, if a woman doesn’t finish spinning flaxseed yard on Saturday, anything left over will not produce good yarn. Also the yarn will never bleach.

As it relates to the direction of spinning flax, if spinning was done counterclockwise, it represented evil. In northeastern Kentucky, there’s a superstition there about when the best time is to plant flax - it’s Good Friday and no other day before or after that.

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