Plants of South Eastern New South Wales

Sanguisorba minor

Flowering stems, showing male flowers. Australian Plant Image Index, photographer Murray Fagg, Woodstock Nature Reserve, ACT

Leaflets and female flowers. Australian Plant Image Index, photographer Murray Fagg, Brindabella Range, ACT

Line drawings. o. leaf; p. flower-head; q. 'seed'. EM Mayfield, National Herbarium of Victoria, © 2021 Royal Botanic Gardens Board

Common name

Salad Burnet, Sheep's Burnet

Family

Rosaceae

Where found

Grassy areas, pastures, disturbed sites, roadsides, and moist places. Mainly ACT, occasionally elsewhere. 

Notes

 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)