Sanguisorba minor - Salad burnet

Salad burnet (Sanguisorba minor) is an evergreen perennial herb of calcareous grassland across Europe, and a constituent of cold semi-arid continental steppe grassland.¹ Its young leaves, mildly cucumber-flavoured, are available fresh through the winter.²

Inputs

• Hardiness zone 4²
• Hardiness zone 5²
• Hardiness zone 6²
• Hardiness zone 7²
• Hardiness zone 8²
• Full sun²
• Moist soil²

Outputs

• Human food²

Type

• Herb
• Evergreen
• Perennial

Functions

• Wildlife habitat²

Footnotes

1. R1B Continental dry grassland (true steppe) | FloraVeg.EU ↩

2. Sanguisorba minor | Plants for a Future ↩ ↩² ↩³ ↩⁴ ↩⁵ ↩⁶ ↩⁷ ↩⁸ ↩⁹ ↩¹⁰