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Flax (Linum usitatissimum) is a plant cultivated for food and fiber in cooler regions of the world.

Flax may also refer to:

• Flax (color), a pale yellowish-gray color
• Flax (moth), a genus of moths
• Holly Flax, a fictional character from the American TV series The Office
• Ken Flax (born 1963), American Olympic hammer thrower
• Flax Art Supply Stores, a group of art supply stores in the United States
• Flax, a Python library that uses Google JAX.

Plants

• Linum, flaxes, a genus of approximately 200 species of flowering plants, including Linum usitatissimum
• Cannabis sativa, an annual herbaceous flowering plant better known as hemp
• Santolina rosmarinifolia, holy flax, a species of flowering plant in the daisy family Asteraceae
• Phormium, New Zealand flax or flax lily
  • Phormium tenax, flax or New Zealand flax
  • Phormium colensoi, mountain flax or lesser New Zealand flax

See also

• Flaxen (disambiguation)

• Disambiguation pages
• Plant common name disambiguation pages