Linum bienne
Mill. · speciesAt a glance
Sources13 archives
Databases and archives Linum bienne's data was compiled from.
WikipediaWikimedia Foundation8 languages↗
BioWikiNetmultilingual Wikipediamultilingual↗
GBIFGlobal Biodiversity Information Facility24 287 records↗
ENAEuropean Nucleotide Archive · EMBL-EBI13 eDNA detections↗
BOLD SystemsCentre for Biodiversity Genomics22 specimens↗
NCBIUS National Library of Medicinesequences↗
GRIN TaxonomyUSDA-ARSdistribution & uses↗
Open Tree of LifeOpenTreephylogeny backbone↗
CCDBChromosome Counts DB · Tel Aviv U.genome & karyotype↗
giftgenome & karyotype
GoaTGenomes on a Tree · Sangergenome & karyotype↗
PloiDBPloidy Databasegenome & karyotype
GLoBIGlobal Biotic Interactionsbiotic interactions↗Every layer below draws on the sources above — open one to explore it, or use ← → to move between tabs.
Linum bienne, the pale or narrowleaf flax, is a flowering plant in the genus Linum, native to the Mediterranean region and western Europe, north to England and Ireland. Pale flax grows as a biennial or perennial plant in dry, sunny calcareous or neutral grasslands from sea level up to 1000 m. It has long, narrow stems to 60 cm tall and slender leaves 1.5–2.5 cm long. The flowers have five petals about 1 cm long and nearly round; they are pale blue but streaked with darker colour. It flowers in late spring and, at least in more temperate regions, through the summer. The flowers are monoecious and are pollinated by bees and wasps. Linum bienne (=L. angustifolium) is considered the probable wild forebear of the cultivated flax, and a fibre can be made from its stem. It is sometimes grown as a garden plant. It has been introduced into North America, where it is naturalized on the Pacific coast from Oregon to the central coast of California, and also in Pennsylvania; it is found in Hawaii, as well.
No narrative description available for this taxon yet.
Size & morphology19
Life cycle & reproduction17
Diet & foraging1
Habitat & environment14
Physiology & chemistry3
Other traits3
A DNA barcode is a short, standardised stretch of genes that works like a fingerprint — enough to tell one species from another. Below is the molecular trace Linum bienne has left across the world's sequence archives.
At a glance
★ the standard DNA barcode for this group — the short region actually read to tell this species apart. The rest are extra genes sequenced along the way.
The complete instruction manual Linum bienne carries — its genome. We read it from three angles — how big it is, how the DNA is packed into chromosomes, and how completely it has been sequenced — and explain how to read each value as you go.
Genome sizehow big the whole instruction manual is
Measured in base pairs (bp) — the individual letters of DNA (human ≈ 3.2 Gb, a bacterium a few million). The chart places this genome on a logarithmic scale — each step to the right is ten times bigger — among reference organisms. Across species a bigger genome loosely tracks with larger cells, slower growth and lower-energy lifestyles (powered flight favours small genomes) — yet it does not imply more genes or a more advanced organism (the long-standing C-value paradox).
Chromosomes & ploidyhow the DNA is packaged
2n is the full chromosome count in a normal body cell; n is a gamete (egg or sperm), which carries half. Ploidy is how many complete chromosome sets each cell holds — 2× (diploid) is typical for animals, while higher levels (polyploidy) are common in plants. Click any value below to see the underlying records and sources.
2n 3040×GoaT · DTOL Flowering Plants Estimates Kew · CCDB · brit-fl · CCDB · iber-fl +8
2n 328×CCDB · iber-fl · CCDB · ipcn-api-dl · CCDB · book-ipcn73-74 +4
2n 182×CCDB · ipcn-api-dl · CCDB · CromoCat 2015
n 158×CCDB · iber-fl · CCDB · ipcn-api-dl · CCDB · book-ipcn75-78 +1
polyploid inferred1×PloiDB · genus-scale
Sequencing statusassembly quality — how far to trust these numbers
Assembly level tells you how finished the sequence is — from fragmented contigs, through scaffolds, up to a full chromosome-level assembly. BUSCO % estimates completeness: the share of genes expected to be present that were actually found. These describe the data quality, not the organism.
How far back this lineage goes — and how we know. Everything here is measured in Ma, short for “mega-annum”: millions of years ago. The chart reads left to right like a calendar of the Earth, from the deep past on the left to today at the right edgetop to bottom like a core drilled through the Earth, from the deep past at the top down to today at the bottom.
At a glance
When this lineage existed
How to read this: the coloured strip along the bottomdown the left is the geological calendar — the standard epochs (Pliocene, Pleistocene…) every museum uses, shown so you can see which chapter of Earth's history this lineage lived in. This lineage is a young one, so the strip is zoomed in to epochs — the finer subdivisions inside a period. The orange marker is the DNA clock: DNA accumulates mutations at a roughly steady rate, so comparing this species' DNA with its relatives estimates when the lineage split off — independently of any fossil.
Record type24 287 records
Origin
Range
Wildobservation + sensor
Human sightings and records, or camera-trap / sensor detections — someone (or a device) saw or captured the species in the wild.
Museum / Voucheredphysical evidence
Backed by a physical specimen — a herbarium sheet, sample or voucher held in a collection. “Vouchered” means supported by material evidence, not just an observation.
Cultivated / Captivenot free-living
A living individual in a botanical garden, zoo or nursery — cultivated or kept, not free-living.
Wildobservation + sensor
Human sightings and records, or camera-trap / sensor detections — someone (or a device) saw or captured the species in the wild.
Holding institutions67 of 117 geolocated
Institutions and collections holding physical, vouchered specimens of this species — click a row to fly to it on the map.
| Institution | Specimens |
|---|---|
| Berlin, DE | 215 |
| MAlocation not on record | 120 |
| BClocation not on record | 111 |
| LDlocation not on record | 104 |
| CICYTEXlocation not on record | 92 |
| Barcelona, ES | 75 |
| ISAlocation not on record | 64 |
| València, ES | 63 |
| Auckland, NZ | 63 |
| Entomological Society of Latvialocation not on record | 46 |
| Badajoz, ES | 43 |
| Salamanca, ES | 39 |
| Arcata, US | 39 |
| Vitoria, ES | 33 |
| Corvallis, US | 32 |
| Wellington, NZ | 30 |
| Hobart, AU | 30 |
| Christchurch, NZ | 29 |
| Pamplona, ES | 29 |
| Wlocation not on record | 28 |
| Madrid, ES | 28 |
| BRNUlocation not on record | 27 |
| Universidad del Pais Vasco (UPV/EHU)location not on record | 22 |
| DOI/NPS, Little Rock Central High School National Historic Sitelocation not on record | 21 |
| Riverside, US | 20 |
| South Kensington, GB | 18 |
| Córdoba, ES | 18 |
| Davis, US | 15 |
| College of the Atlantic, Museumlocation not on record | 14 |
| Rotorua, NZ | 13 |
| Canadian Department of Agriculturelocation not on record | 13 |
| Frankfurt am Main | 11 |
| Granada, ES | 10 |
| Sevilla, ES | 10 |
| GJOlocation not on record | 10 |
| CASlocation not on record | 10 |
| Conservatoire botanique national du Bassin parisienlocation not on record | 9 |
| San Luis Obispo, US | 9 |
| Moscow State Universitylocation not on record | 8 |
| CJBGlocation not on record | 8 |
| Santa Barbara, US | 7 |
| Rishon Le Zion, IL | 7 |
| Pamplona, ES | 6 |
| Saint Louis, US | 5 |
| Boise, US | 5 |
| Phyletisches Museum Jenalocation not on record | 5 |
| SLU Artdatabankenlocation not on record | 5 |
| Görlitz, DE | 5 |
| Provo, US | 5 |
| Alicante, ES | 5 |
| Museo Achille Folettolocation not on record | 5 |
| GZUlocation not on record | 4 |
| Claremont, US | 4 |
| OLAlocation not on record | 4 |
| Santa Cruz, US | 4 |
| UIBlocation not on record | 3 |
| National Museum Waleslocation not on record | 3 |
| Portland, US | 3 |
| Uppsala, SE | 3 |
| Stockholm, SE | 3 |
| Hunan Geological Museumlocation not on record | 2 |
| Paris, FR | 2 |
| Pullman, US | 2 |
| Banyoles, ES | 2 |
| Bourges, FR | 2 |
| JBSlocation not on record | 2 |
| Honolulu, US | 2 |
| Institut und Museum fuer Geologie und Palaeontologielocation not on record | 2 |
| Ashland, US | 2 |
| Museo della Bonifica di San Donà di Piavelocation not on record | 2 |
| Xiamen, CN | 2 |
| Meguro Parasitological Museumlocation not on record | 2 |
| Oskarshamn, SE | 2 |
| San Diego, US | 2 |
| San Jose State University, Museum of Birds and Mammalslocation not on record | 2 |
| Henderson, US | 2 |
| JBCLMlocation not on record | 2 |
| EL PASO, US | 2 |
| Agriculture and Agri-Food Canadalocation not on record | 2 |
| Pittsburg, US | 1 |
| DOI/NPS, Greenbelt Parklocation not on record | 1 |
| Natural History Museum Rotterdamlocation not on record | 1 |
| Moscow, US | 1 |
| SWlocation not on record | 1 |
| Bureau of Land Management, Medford District Officelocation not on record | 1 |
| Jaén, ES | 1 |
| Canberra, AU | 1 |
| Museum of the Rockieslocation not on record | 1 |
| Palmerston North, NZ | 1 |
| JBRJlocation not on record | 1 |
| Minia, EG | 1 |
| Herbario Universidad de Concepciónlocation not on record | 1 |
| Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires, AR | 1 |
| Coimbra, PT | 1 |
| Royal Botanic Gardens, Kewlocation not on record | 1 |
| IPE-CSIClocation not on record | 1 |
| BISHlocation not on record | 1 |
| Provincia di Livornolocation not on record | 1 |
| US | 1 |
| STNFlocation not on record | 1 |
| Logan, US | 1 |
| Northridge, US | 1 |
| Research Center in Biodiversity and Genetic Resourceslocation not on record | 1 |
| CIBIOlocation not on record | 1 |
| Olocation not on record | 1 |
| WTUlocation not on record | 1 |
| Chiba, JP | 1 |
| ASUlocation not on record | 1 |
| Göteborg, SE | 1 |
| San Jose, US | 1 |
| Victoria, CA | 1 |
| Edinburgh, GB | 1 |
| Santiago de Compostela, ES | 1 |
| Kew, GB | 1 |
| Pocatello, US | 1 |
| Wuzhou, CN | 1 |
| MeiseBGlocation not on record | 1 |
Cultivated / Captivenot free-living
A living individual in a botanical garden, zoo or nursery — cultivated or kept, not free-living.
Where the DNA of Linum bienne was picked up in samples of water, soil or air — nobody saw the organism, only its DNA left behind. A trace is a clue that the species was near, not a confirmed sighting.
Signal
Where its DNA was found
How strong is each trace?
Modelled climatemodelled
How to read this: each dot is one detection of this species' DNA in an environmental sample. The confidence meter weighs how many independent studies and places back up the signal — one detection in one study is a hint; many across several studies is solid. Records dated before 2008 (when eDNA methods began) are treated as likely mislabeled and left off the map.