Salad Burnet

Salad Burnet

Taxobox
name = Salad Burnet


image_width = 250px
regnum = Plantae
divisio = Magnoliophyta
classis = Magnoliopsida
ordo = Rosales
familia = Rosaceae
genus = "Sanguisorba"
species = "S. minor"
binomial = "Sanguisorba minor"
binomial_authority = Scop.

Salad Burnet ("Sanguisorba minor") is a plant in the family Rosaceae, native to western, central and southern Europe, northwest Africa and southwest Asia. It is a perennial herbaceous plant growing to 40-90 cm tall, typically found in dry grassy meadows, often on limestone soils. It is drought tolerant, and grows all year around.

It is also an ingredient used in both salads and dressings, having a flavor described as "light cucumber". It is considered interchangeable with mint leaves in some recipes, depending on the intended effect. Typically, the youngest leaves are used, as they tend to become bitter as they age.

Salad burnet has the same medicinal qualities as medicinal burnet ("Sanguisorba officinalis").

It also has a respectable history, called a favorite herb by Francis Bacon, and being brought to the New World with its first English colonists, even getting special mention by Thomas Jefferson.


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  • salad burnet — /sæləd bɜˈnɛt/ (say saluhd ber net) noun a perennial herb, Poterium sanguisorba, family Rosaceae, of Britain, Europe, western Asia and northern Africa, having leaves which can be used as a salad vegetable …  

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  • burnet bloodwort — noun European garden herb with purple tinged flowers and leaves that are sometimes used for salads • Syn: ↑salad burnet, ↑pimpernel, ↑Poterium sanguisorba • Hypernyms: ↑herb, ↑herbaceous plant • Member Holonyms: ↑ …   Useful english dictionary

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