Flax
Linum usitatissimum
- Flowering period
- May–August
- Nectar
- gering
- Pollen
- gering
Flax flowers from May to August and provides only small amounts of nectar and pollen. It is annual and is grown as a fibre and oil crop; the flowers usually open only in the morning. By midday they have often already faded. For the colony it is therefore hardly a forage source, despite large areas under cultivation.
Sources (5)
- Trachtpflanzen-Katalog Bienenroute: Flachs
- Flachs, Pflanzensteckbrief bei Die Honigmacher (Deutscher Imkerbund)
- Beeplants.eu, Pflanzenkatalog der Danmarks Biavlerforening
- Linum usitatissimum, Euro+Med PlantBase über PESI
- Filipiak, Walczyńska, Denisow, Petanidou, Ziółkowska (2022): Phenology and production of pollen, nectar and sugar in 1612 plant species from various environments