Sanguisorba minor

Also known as Salad Burnet, small burnet, garden burnet

species of plant

Species

Salad Burnet

SPECIES

KingdomPlantae
PhylumTracheophyta
ClassMagnoliopsida
OrderRosales
FamilyRosaceae

Native toAfghanistan, Albania, Algeria, Austria, Baleares, Belgium, Bulgaria, Cape Provinces, Central European Russia, Corse, Cyprus, Czechia-Slovakia

Observations28,128

IV, V, RM, VII, VIII, IX

via GBIF · Kew POWO

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Leaves, used in salads

Sanguisorba minor, the salad burnet, garden burnet, small burnet, burnet (also used for Sanguisorba generally), pimpernelle, Toper's plant, and burnet-bloodwort, is an edible perennial herbaceous plant in the family Rosaceae. It has ferny, toothed-leaf foliage; the unusual crimson, spherical flower clusters rise well above the leaves on thin stems. It generally grows to 25–55 cm tall (moisture-dependent; as short as 2 cm in dry areas). The large, long (sometimes 1m/3-foot), taproots store water, making it drought-tolerant.