Sanguisorba

Plant Characteristics

Lifespan:	⌛	perennial

Cultivation

Scientific Names

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Sanguisorba is a genus of perennial herbs or small shrubs in the family Rosaceae, native to the temperate regions of the Northern Hemisphere. The common name is Burnet. The stems grow to 50-200 cm tall, with a cluster of basal leaves, and further leaves arranged alternately up the stem. The leaves are pinnate, 5-30 cm long, with 7-25 leaflets, the leaflets with a serrated margin. Young leaves grow from the crown in the center of the plant. The flowers are small, produced in dense clusters 5-20 mm long; each flower has four very small petals, white to red in colour.

Read about Sanguisorba in the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture

Burnet (Potbrium Sanguisorba, Linn.). A hardy rosaceous perennial, the piquant Lvs. of which are sometimes used in flavoring soups and salads. The dried roots are occasionally used as a family remedy. Burnet is little known in this country as a condimental herb. It is worthy a place in the hardy border for the ornamental character of its odd-pinnate Lvs. and its little heads of fls. with drooping stamens. The Lfts. are very dark green, ovate and notched: sts. 1-2 ft. high, bearing oblong or globular monoecious heads. Of easiest cult., either from seeds or by division of the clumps. Native of Eu. The above text is from the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture. It may be out of date, but still contains valuable and interesting information which can be incorporated into the remainder of the article. Click on "Collapse" in the header to hide this text.

Read about Sanguisorba in the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture

Sanguisorba (Latin, blood and drink up, from reputed styptic properties in folk-medicine). Rosaceae. Chiefly perennial herbs, grown as salad plants and also sometimes used in the hardy border. Leaves unequally pinnate; stipules adherent to the petiole: fls. small, often polygamous or dioecious, crowded in a dense head or spike at the summit of a long, naked peduncle; calyx-tube persistent, with 4 broad petal-like spreading deciduous lobes; petals none; stamens 4-12: achene (commonly solitary) inclosed in the 4-angled dry and thickish calyx-tube.—About 35 species, natives of the North Temperate Zone. See Poterium. S. atrosanguinea, Hort., is a form listed in the trade as having wiry sts. 3 ft. high bearing heads of rich crimson fls. Possibly the European S. officinalis, Linn. CH The above text is from the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture. It may be out of date, but still contains valuable and interesting information which can be incorporated into the remainder of the article. Click on "Collapse" in the header to hide this text.

Cultivation

Burnet tolerates drought, heat and cold well. The leaves contain Vitamin C; those of S. minor have a mild, cucumber-like taste, and are sometimes used in salads

Species

• Sanguisorba albanica
• Sanguisorba alpina
• Sanguisorba ancistroides
• Sanguisorba annua
• Sanguisorba applanata
• Sanguisorba armena
• Sanguisorba canadensis - Canadian Burnet
• Sanguisorba caucasica
• Sanguisorba cretica
• Sanguisorba diandra
• Sanguisorba dodecandra - Italian Burnet
• Sanguisorba filiformis
• Sanguisorba hakusanensis - Hakusan Burnet
• Sanguisorba hybrida
• Sanguisorba magnifica
• Sanguisorba menendezii - Canary Islands Burnet
• Sanguisorba menziesii
• Sanguisorba minor - Salad Burnet
• Sanguisorba obtusa - Japanese Burnet
• Sanguisorba officinalis - Great Burnet
• Sanguisorba stipulata
• Sanguisorba tenuifolia - Asian Burnet

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References

• Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture, by L. H. Bailey, MacMillan Co., 1963

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