Linum marginaleA.Cunn.

WFO wfo-0000363258 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC BY / CC BY-SA

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Linum marginale, photographed by Nina Kerr
fig. a Nina Kerr, CC BY 4.0 / 2021-10-31 / obs. 166570352
Linum marginale, photographed by Thomas Mesaglio
fig. b Thomas Mesaglio, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 165067632
Linum marginale, photographed by Kym Nicolson
fig. c Kym Nicolson, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 164993930
Linum marginale, photographed by Kym Nicolson
fig. d Kym Nicolson, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 158956420
Linum marginale, photographed by yatesy
fig. e yatesy, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 113068712
Linum marginale, photographed by Thomas Mesaglio
fig. f Thomas Mesaglio, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 112677786
Linum marginale, photographed by Miguel de Salas
fig. g Miguel de Salas, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 105966054
Linum marginale, photographed by Kym Nicolson
fig. h Kym Nicolson, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 54768027

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Native range 6 botanical countries

Regions where Linum marginale is native: New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia New South WalesQueenslandSouth AustraliaTasmaniaVictoriaWestern Australia
Native distribution of Linum marginale, after Kew’s World Checklist of Vascular Plants. Introduced, extinct and doubtful records are excluded, so this is where the plant is from, not everywhere it now grows.
RegionTDWG codeContinent
New South Wales NSW AUSTRALASIA
Queensland QLD
South Australia SOA
Tasmania TAS
Victoria VIC
Western Australia WAU

Region boundaries approximated from Natural Earth (public domain) and mapped to TDWG World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions (WGSRPD) level-3 botanical countries (Brummitt 2001). Indicative, not the official WGSRPD geometry.

Flowering 170 in flower of 174 examined

Peak flowering in Jan. Each bar is the share of Linum marginale observations in which someone actually recorded the reproductive state and found the plant in flower, not the raw number of flowering records. That distinction matters: people observe plants far more in spring than in winter, so a bare count of flowering records partly measures when people go outside. Dividing by the number examined removes that. 170 of 174 examined observations were in flower, every one of them research grade. The whisker on each bar is a 95% Wilson interval. 5 months have fewer than 5 examined observations, so no proportion is drawn for them. This is still a global aggregate and not a forecast for your garden: the same species flowers on different dates in different hemispheres. Where a species has fewer than 30 flowering records we do not draw this chart at all. Computed from 10.15468/dl.cgje2x.

Also published as 3 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

  • Linum albidum Ewart & Jean White
  • Linum angustifolium DC.
  • Linum marginale var. australe Wawra

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.
  3. Kew, World Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP v16). native distribution by TDWG level-3 botanical country, and life form. CC BY 3.0. Retrieved 2026-06-04.

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