Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Sanguisorba minor
Salad Burnet, Sheep's Burnet
Rosaceae
Grassy areas, pastures, disturbed sites, roadsides, and moist places. Mainly ACT, occasionally elsewhere.
Introduced perennial herb to 1 m high, arising annually from a stout rootstock. Stems hairless to slighltly hairy, greenish-yellow to purplish. Leaves mostly clustered at the base of the plant, also alternating up the stems, 8–30 cm long, compound, with 9–21 leaflets 0.5–3 cm long, margins toothed, surfaces hairless. Stipules leaf-like, stem-clasping, toothed, about 1.5 cm long. Leaves edible. Flowers with 0 petals, and 4 sepals 2–4 mm long, green, margins whitish or pink to purple. Male and female flowers on the same plant, the female above the male. Flower heads globular to oval, 10–15 mm long. Flowers Spring-Summer.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Sanguisorba~minor (accessed 20 April 2021)
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