969 Camelina sativa (L.) Cr.

The C. sativa complex here includes C. sativa s. str., an old weed with an almost world-wide distribution, C. microcarpa Andrz., originally a steppe plant in Eurasia, now widely spread, and C. linicola Sch. & Sp. (syn.: C. alyssum [Mill.] Thell.), a weed of the flax fields, mainly in Europe. Nowadays C. sativa may occur only casually in Scandinavia. The present distribution of the complex shows an discontinuous circumpolar pattern (Hultén, Circumpol. Il, p. 270 and map 261).