Salad Burnet Sanguisorba minor

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Family Rosaceae

Description

Salad burnet has reddish-brown, erect stems with globular red flowerheads. These have purplish, feathery stigmas and sepals instead of petals. The flowers are hermaphrodite (have both male and female organs) and are pollinated by Bees. The plant is self-fertile.. The pinnate leaves comprise 4- 12 pairs of rounded, deeply toothed leaflets; basal leaves in a rosette.

Grows 20-60 cm tall,

Habitat

A perennial herbaceous plant of limestone grassland typically found in dry grassy meadows,

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