Burnet Sanguisorba minor
Other Common Name(s):
Previously known as:
- Poterium sanguisorba
- Phonetic Spelling
- san-GWIS-or-ba MY-nor
- Description
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Salad Burnet is an herb often grown for its edible foliage. Cut the plant back to encourage new growth, as the youngest leaves are the tastiest.
It can be found growing on dry, infertile chalk or limestone grasslands. The plant will spread through self-seeding. To discourage self-seeding, remove the flowers once they have bloomed.
Intolerant of drought and shade but does tolerate alkaline soils and browsing by deer. Plant in border fronts, herb gardens, or in a vegetable garden.
Insects, Diseases, and Other Plant Problems: No serious problems.
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Attributes:
- Genus:
- Sanguisorba
- Species:
- minor
- Family:
- Rosaceae
- Life Cycle:
- Perennial
- Recommended Propagation Strategy:
- Division
- Seed
- Country Or Region Of Origin:
- Europe, northern Africa, Canary Islands, Asia
- Edibility:
- The cucumber flavored leaves of Salad Burnet are used in making salads, vinegar, butter, cottage cheese, and cream cheese. It is also used as a garnish.
- Dimensions:
- Height: 0 ft. 9 in. - 2 ft. 0 in.
- Width: 1 ft. 0 in. - 2 ft. 0 in.
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Whole Plant Traits:
- Plant Type:
- Edible
- Herbaceous Perennial
- Weed
- Habit/Form:
- Mounding
- Maintenance:
- Low
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Cultural Conditions:
- Light:
- Full sun (6 or more hours of direct sunlight a day)
- Soil Texture:
- Clay
- High Organic Matter
- Sand
- Soil pH:
- Acid (<6.0)
- Alkaline (>8.0)
- Neutral (6.0-8.0)
- Soil Drainage:
- Good Drainage
- Available Space To Plant:
- 12 inches-3 feet
- NC Region:
- Coastal
- Mountains
- Piedmont
- USDA Plant Hardiness Zone:
- 4a, 4b, 5a, 5b, 6a, 6b, 7a, 7b, 8a, 8b
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Fruit:
- Display/Harvest Time:
- Summer
- Fruit Type:
- Achene
- Fruit Description:
- July to September dry, winged, but does not split open when ripe. Contains many small seeds..
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Flowers:
- Flower Color:
- Green
- Purple/Lavender
- Flower Inflorescence:
- Head
- Flower Value To Gardener:
- Edible
- Showy
- Flower Bloom Time:
- Summer
- Flower Petals:
- 4-5 petals/rays
- Flower Description:
- Greenish flower with 4 petals, a purple tinge in rounded radially symmetrical, heads on upright stalks that reach 2' tall mid-summer.
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Leaves:
- Leaf Color:
- Green
- Leaf Value To Gardener:
- Edible
- Fragrant
- Leaf Type:
- Compound (Pinnately , Bipinnately, Palmately)
- Leaf Arrangement:
- Rosulate
- Leaf Margin:
- Crenate
- Dentate
- Serrate
- Hairs Present:
- No
- Leaf Description:
- Pinnately compound leaves have 4-12 pairs of rounded, toothed leaflets, fragrant, in a mounded rosette.
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Stem:
- Stem Is Aromatic:
- No
- Stem Description:
- Erect
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Landscape:
- Landscape Location:
- Container
- Naturalized Area
- Landscape Theme:
- Edible Garden
- Design Feature:
- Border
- Mass Planting
- Resistance To Challenges:
- Drought
