Lewisii:  Answers to key questions in Budd's Flora  and Flora of Alberta leading to this species.   perennial; NOT annual leaves linear; NOT [leaves lanceolate or linear lanceolate] pedicels arching and spreading; NOT [pedicels erect] sepals more than half as long as capsule sepals blunt to short-acuminate; NOT [sepals long-acuminate] inner sepals WITHOUT marginal glands inner sepals NOT ciliate flowers blue; NOT yellow fruiting stalks 1-4 cm long; NOT [fruiting stalks 0.5-1 cm long]

 

Linaceae: Answers to key questions in Budd's Flora  leading to this family.  herbs plants terrestrial plants NOT with colored milky juice plants with more than one normal leaf some or all leaves alternate; NOT [leaves opposite, whorled, or basal] stipules absent or present as small, dark, spherical glands NOT fleshy-leaved plants flowers with two floral rings  calyx regular sepals 5 none of the sepals spurred each petal distinct from the others none of the petals spurred stamens 5 stamens united at base ovary superior; NOT inferior carpels 5 fruit a capsule fruit NOT explosive