Salad Burnet

Sanguisorba minor

  • Salad Burnet
  • Salad Burnet
  • Flower name
    Salad Burnet
  • Scientific name
    Sanguisorba minor
  • Aliasオランダワレモコウ, Salad Burnet, 和蘭吾亦紅, Garden Burnet, Sanguisorba minor
  • Place of originMediterranean coast
  • Place of floweringGarden
  • Flowering seasonMay, June

What is Salad Burnet

Salad Burnet (scientific name: Sanguisorba minor) is native to the Mediterranean coast, and is a cold-resistant perennial vegetable of the family Rosaceae. During the early summer to rainy season, add a green spherical inflorescences to the shoot apex. The upper part of the inflorescences plays a red stamen with a male flower. The lower part of the inflorescence is a female flower and puts out a purple stigma. It is the calyx that the petals degenerate and looks like petals. Flowers (calyx) bloom from top to bottom. Wakaba is a vegetable which smells like cucumber and can be eaten raw salad etc. It is rich in vitamin C, and private medicine is supposed to have medicinal ingredients against diuresis. In the closely related species, there are Wallemocow (S. officinalis) and Sanguisorba hakusanesis (S. hakusanensis).

Generic name: Salad Burnet, Scientific name: Sanguisorba minor, aka: Garden Burnet, Place of Origin: Mediterranean Coast, Plant Length: 30 to 90 cm, Leaf Shape: Feathery Compound, Leaf Margin: Wavy Serrated, Inflorescence Length: 1.5 cm, Flowering Period: May to June, Flower Color: Red · Pink, Harvesting Period: From March to November (excluding August and September), use: garden plant, potted plant, herb, dry flower.


  • Order
    Rosales
  • Family
    Rosaceae
  • Genus
    Sanguisorba
  • Species
    S. minor
  • Type of flower
    Radial symmetrical flower
  • Array of flower
    Spikelet inflorescence
  • Petal shape
    without
  • Leaf type
    Pinnate compound leaf
  • Edge of the leaf
    Serrated
  • Life typecold-resistant perennial vegetable
  • Flower colorsRed Purple
  • Colors of the leavesGreen
  • Fruit color
  • Height30.0 ~ 90.0 cm
  • Diameter of flower0.5 ~ 0.5 cm

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