Common name:
Salad burnet
Family:
Scientific name:
Sanguisorba minor
Main flower color:
Range:
Ireland, Wales, England and southern Scotland
Height:
Between 15 cm and 40 cm
Habitat:
Calcareous grassland
Flowers:
Tiny, with four green to purplish sepals (no petals), forming a cup-shape, enclosing either a cluster of long, yellowish stamens or a pair of green styles topped by feathery red stigmas. Flowers are produced as one or more dense, spherical clusters, up to 2 cm across, at the top of the hairless stem
Leaves:
Mostly basal, pinnately divided into between six and 15 small, rounded, toothed leaflets
Season:
May to September
Rarity:
★★★★★
