Scientific name:

Sanguisorba minor

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Sanguisorba canadensis - Burnet, White
Sanguisorba minor subsp. minor - Burnet, Salad

Salad or Fodder Burnet

Scientific name: Sanguisorba minor Scop.

Diagnostic features
Stems erect, to 50(80)cm.
Leaves with 3-12 pairs of leaflets.
Flower-heads 6-15mm, globose or slightly elongated.
Sepals green and purple.
Stamens yellow, c.6mm.

This species is keyed out on Page 910: Sanguisorba in the Text Key.

Key to the subspecies:
a. Fruiting hypanthium 3-4.5mm, with thickened but scarcely winged ridges on angles, the faces distinctly reticulate with finer ridges.
......................... Sanguisorba minor minor.
b. Fruiting hypanthium 3-5mm, with often undulate wings on angles, the faces smooth to irregularly rugose.
..................... Sanguisorba minor muricata.

Sanguisorba minor minor 2 (Flowering, picture taken in Peak district by C.A. Stace)
Sanguisorba minor minor a (Fruiting hypanthium, drawing by H. Thompson in Stace, 1997)
Sanguisorba minor a (Fruiting hypanthium, subsp. minor and muricata, drawing by H. Thompson in Stace, 1997)
Sanguisorba minor muric a (Fruiting hypanthium, drawing by H. Thompson in Stace, 1997)

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