#blue flax

[kitpikz]

Blue Flax in the Gardens

[huong1952]

Wioletta Ustyjańczuk - Meadow with Blue Ones

[plantsinsupernatural]

Flax, soy, wheat

season 9, episode 5: Dog Dean Afternoon

Sam and Dean track a symbol painted on a victim's storefront to a hippie cafe where one of the proprietors offers them a flax seed scone. Later, the hippies adopt the victim's dog, who calls one of them "tofu breath" and says he'll be "pooping wheatgrass with these two." Evidently this dog doesn't say shit.

Flax, also called line, is best known for being extremely useful. The seeds can be eaten whole, ground into meal, or pressed into linseed oil. Linen fabric is made from fibers found in the plant stems. The scones in the show are described as gluten-free and wheat-free (in that order), and thus are likely made with flaxseed flour. They would lose nothing by it. Being unrelated to wheat, flax is inherently gluten-free; gluten is good for creating structural integrity and delicate textures in baked goods, which are unnecessary qualities for scones, dense and crumbly as they most often are.

Tofu is made from the curds of soy milk, which in turn is made from soy beans. Soy is not used to make textiles, but is even more versatile than flax in cuisine. The beans are high in protein, and can be eaten whole as edamame when immature, or processed into meal, oil, milk, sauce, and other sundry food products. Soy has grown commonplace in the West, but is still considered distinctly East Asian.

According to Wikipedia, wheatgrass refers to "the freshly sprouted first leaves of the common wheat plant (Triticum aestivum), used as a food, drink, or dietary supplement." Its health benefits have historically been exaggerated. Aesthetically speaking, ripe wheat is on par with flax and soy, but wheatgrass just looks like grass.

Learned readers will note that despite being used in this episode to signal eccentricity, flax, soy, and wheat are all staple crops.

[cedar-rayne]

✧ wildflowers ✧

tumblr ate the resolution on this ._.

blanket flower (Gaillardia sp.), black-eyed susan (Rudbeckia hirta), red corn poppy (Papaver rhoeas), perennial blue flax (Linum perenne), purple coneflower (Echinacea purpurea), shasta daisy (Leucanthemum × superbum), cornflower (Centaurea cyanus), and sulphur cosmos (Cosmos sulphureus).

Watercolors and micron pens.

December 2025.

NFS.

[bluewillowmoon]

wind scatters

bits of sky

blue flax in bloom

— Yūgure, 20 January 2026

[ghostoffuturespast]

Was too tired to do a full field notes yesterday, but I'm extremely excited that I officially got my first bloom in my garden at home! Linum lewisii - Lewis Blue Flax! This is a gorgeous blue native flower that's found throughout western North America. My tiny front yard faces north and doesn't get much sun, so most of my plants are about 2-3 weeks behind on their growth cycles compared to the prairie plants I know that are getting full sun. There are a ton of buds on the Blue Flax though, give it another week and this thing will be popping off!

The Penstemon and the Prince's Plume are probably the next two species that are going to bud.

The three flowers on the left that I'm holding are actually imposters! Linum perenne - Perennial Flax which is an introduced and naturalized species from Europe. However, they practically look identical at first glance! I found this L. perenne growing in some of the neighborhood landscaping and the little lady probably hitched a ride over from the nursery.

The key identification difference between these two species are the lengths of the stamen and the styles (The little twiggy things coming out of the yellow part of the flower - which are the male and female reproductive parts of the plant.) L. perenne is heterostylic, meaning the styles are either longer or shorter than the stamen (which also varies between populations of plants). L. lewisii is homostylic, with styles all the same length. Not the best picture, but if you look closely you might be able to spot the difference!

[solontina]

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[akikenshin12]

LMK OC SHiPS!