Family: Linaceae Flax / Linseed Linum usitatissimum Flowering time: May-september. Annual. Neophyte Grown for fibre and linseed oil, also included in bird-seed mixes and can occur as a casual on roadsides, arable margins and on waste ground. The flowers are pale blue with pointed sepals that are +/- as long as the seed capsules and the linear-lanceolate leaves are three-veined Similar: Pale Flax, Linum bienne

Flax, Linum usitatissimum
Photographs: At margin of arable field, Badbury Rings, Dorset. August 2016