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Flaxes
Every rated Linum record is fire-resistant — 3 of 3 records, including the genus rated as a group; none is condemned. These counts describe the cited records — 3 records carrying 21 evidence rows from 19 cited sources; they do not make one verdict for the genus.
Rated as a group: Flax Linum spp. Fire-resistant Consensus 4 sources rate the genus as a
whole. Species evidence never rolls upward into a genus verdict, and genus claims never
override a species record.
› Fire-resistant
2 species
About flaxes
Corpus context. Linum is the directory's #314 largest of 550 genus groups: 3 records carrying 21 evidence rows from 19 cited sources, recorded as perennial , hardy across USDA zones 2–8. Those are corpus facts, not a whole-genus flammability claim.
More about Linum: Wikipedia — external references; not evidence sources.