Family: Linaceae Fairy Flax Linum catharticum Flowering: June-September. Annual /biennial. Native Most frequent on dry calcareous soils but also on damp neutral to mildly acidic ground. Found on grassland, dunes, roadsides and heaths A slender plant, easily overlooked when not flowering. It has very small white flowers with 5 un-notched petals and 5 narrow sepals. Leaves are opposite, single-veined, narrowly oval and on thin erect to straggly stems Similar to some stitchworts but the petals of Fairy Flax are entire

Fairy Flax, Linum catharticum
Badbury Rings, Dorset. August 2012