Linum arboreum is a genuine ornament on the rocks, a very attractive shrub with bright yellow flowers and relatively early spring flowering that will definitely attract your attention. It can reach 1 meter in height although it is usually lower and caespitose. Its leaves are glabrous and thick and its few-flowered compact inflorescences appear from March to May and occasionally from January. It is usually found in rock crevices and rocky slopes with macchie and phrygana vegetation, from sea level up to 900 meters although rarely it can be found up to 1900 meters. It is distributed in Crete, the southeastern Aegean islands (Astypalea, Kasos, Karpathos, Sharia, Rhodes, Symi, Halki) and the Marmaris peninsula on the southwestern coast of Asia Minor.
