The Flax Plant, scientifically known as Linum usitatissimum, is native to Europe, Asia and the Mediterranean region. It grows 20 to 40 inches tall with thin, tall stems covered in large leaves. The plant comes in various colors and thrives in fertile, fine-textured clay soil in moderate climates like the North Central US. Flax Plants provide nutrition from their seeds, have medicinal properties, and are ecologically beneficial as they require little energy and can be fully recycled.

1. The Flax Plant; the uses and life By: Megan C.

2. The scientific name for the Flax Plant is LinumUsitatissimum. The Flax Plant comes in various colors such as orange, purple, and pink. It can grow to be 20 to 40 inches tall and in the picture below shows the parts of the Flax Plant too. The stem is thin, tall, and is covered in big leaves.

3. The Flax Plant is native to Europe, Asia, and the Mediterranean region. The kind-of soil that the Flax Plant likes to be planted in a fertile, fine textured clay soil. And it is not to be grown in sandy, ruff soils. The best kind of temperature for the Flax Plant is in the North Central US, because it has moderate summer temperature, and rain fall which is sufficient but not excessive. The Flax Plant is a monocot and is an angiosperm too.

4. We can benefit from the Flax Plant in numerous ways such as in nutrition, medicine, and ecologically. For nutrition we eat their healthy seeds. We can make low carb baked goods, and is good for adding nutrition to about everything edible. Also in medicine Flax Plants are used. They are high in acid or ALA, they are good for heart disease, and can help different types of cancer. Lastly the way we use it in our ecology. The Flax Plant requires little energy and all its products can be recycled so it’s a “0 waste” which is just what this earth needs.

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