Sanguisorba

I think I still have some sanguisorba blooming, and some nodding pink onion. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Hi Benjamin, you have a plant that I am struggling to get going here, the sanguisorba. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Smaller than this Common Burnet is the Salad Burnet, _Poterium sanguisorba, quod sanguineos fluxus sistat_, a useful [431] styptic, which is also cordial, and promotes perspiration. ❋ William Thomas Fernie (N/A)

Flowering plants include centaurea, cranesbills, linaria, knautia and sanguisorba - all hand-mixed and hand-sown. ❋ Unknown (2011)

It was known by older writers as Pimpinella sanguisorba, Pimpinella being a corruption of bipennula, from the two pinnate leaves. ❋ Unknown (2009)

These are more like a sanguisorba flowerhead and very un-thistlelike. ❋ Unknown (2008)

I’m still fending off the rabbit from the asters and sanguisorba. ❋ Unknown (2008)

The Burnet (_Poterium sanguisorba_) is a native plant of no great beauty or horticultural interest, but it was valued as a good salad plant, the leaves tasting of Cucumber, and Lord Bacon (contemporary with ❋ Henry Nicholson Ellacombe (1868)