Linum aristatum Engelm.

Cathartolinum aristatum (Engelm.) Small
Liuum aristatum Engelm. in Wisliz. Tour Northern Mex. 101. 1S4S.
Plants 2-4 dm. tall, glaucescent. Stems usually sparingly branched at the base, the branches slender, striate or striate-angled, glabrous, sparingly corymbose-branched above, the branches of the inflorescence elongate, the cymes few-flowered ; leaves relatively few, erect or appressed, alternate, the blades thiekish, those of the lower leaves narrowly linearspatulate to narrowly linear and about 1 cm. long, those of the upper leaves long-subulate to filiform-subulate on account of the involute margins, all entire ; bracts slender-subulate, glandular-toothed ; outer sepals linear-lanceolate, becoming 9-10 mm. long, finely glandular-toothed below the attenuate apex, which terminates in a very slender spine ; inner sepals narrowly lanceolate, shorter than the outer ones, more finely toothed and more slender at the apex; petals yellow, 13-15 mm. long; filaments glabrous; capsules ovoid, about 3 mm. long.
Type locality : Near Carrizal, Chihuahua, Mexico.
Distribution : Western Texas, eastern New Mexico, and adjacent Mexico.

Linum aristatum là một loài thực vật có hoa trong họ Linaceae. Loài này được Engelm. mô tả khoa học đầu tiên năm 1848.