Historical Common Names of Great Plains Plants:

Linum usitatissimum L.

Origin: introduced

Scientific Synonyms: Linum humile P. Mill., Linum usitatissimum L. var. humile (P. Mill.) Pers.

Common names:

Atasi (1886, Sanskrit) (110)

Common flax (1923-Present) (50, 4, 3, 82, 155, 156)

Cultivated flax (1913-1936N) (5, 93)

Flachs or flax (Teutonic, from old German flahs) (110)

Flax (1840-1949) (5, 19, 72, 85, 95, 97, 107, 109, 110, 114, 138, 158)

Flaxseed [Flax seed] (1876-1929) (53, 57, 59, 92, 157)

Flix (1900-1923) (5, 156, 158)

Haar (German near Salzburg) (1886, from German for thread or hair) (110)

Hor härr, or hor (1886, Danish) (110)

Hor ot tone (1886, Gothic) (110)

Klanglein (1886, German) (110)

Liho, lino, or li (1886, Basque) (110)

Lin (1900-1913) (5, 158)

Lin (1886, Keltic) (110)

Lin, llin, linu, linon, linum, lein, or lan (European languages with Aryan roots, from same root as ligare "to bind") (110)

Linn (1923) (156)

Linon or linum (1886, Graeco-Latin) (110)

Linseed (1876-1929) (5, 53, 57, 59, 92, 95, 156, 157)

Lint (1900-1923) (156, 158)

Lint-bells [Lint bells] (1900-1937) (5, 97, 156, 158)

Linum (1911) (59)

Low flax (1942) (155)

Ooma (1886, Sanskrit) (110)

Pellawa or aiwina (1886, Finnish) (110)

Pischta (1886, Hebrew) (110)

Springlein (1886, German) (110)

Utasi (1886, Sanskrit) (110)

Vlix (1900) (158)

Winterlien (1876, German) (92)