The Dwarf Flax

The dwarfs (Radiola linoides), also called dwarf flax, is a tiny flowering plant in the family Linaceae. The name is not a diminutive, but refers to the close relationship with the flax (Linum).

The dwarf is only 10-10 cm high. His thin, bare stems are gabelästig. The only 3-5 mm long, ovoid to lanceolate leaves are seated on opposite sides. The four-fold flowers are in hanks (Dichasien) at the end of the branches. The sepal are 2 - to 3-toothed, the white-colored petals are as long as the fruit and are about 1 mm long. The little dwarf blooms from July to August.

The dwarfs inhabited predominantly short-lived pioneer mud floor corridors, however, is also in moist, temporarily flooded field depressions found on the banks periodically tide waters and temporarily disturbed, damp waste places. The plant is considered as linoidis Kennart the Association Ranunculo-Radioletum and has its main deposits in the association Cicendietum filiformis. In Germany there is the kind of rare. By eutrophication of soils, intensive agriculture, removal of small areas of humidity and coastal protection, and therefore lack of coastal dynamics go back more stock. It is classified on the Red List of Threatened vascular plants in Germany as high-risk. In Mecklenburg-Vorpommern is threatened with extinction. The spread of Radiola linoides enough about Europe to montane regions of Africa.



Source: http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zwerglein

See also: International Flower Delivery, Florist