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Salad Burnet, native Irish, Lus na uille
Flowers May-September
Native
40cm
Globose flowerheads, the tiny greenish flowers with long reddish styles and yellow anthers. A slightly hairy or hairless plant and the leaves smelling and tasting of cucumber.
Prefers dry, infertile calcareous grasslands and gravel banks.
Poterium sanguisorba thrives alongside other perennials, herbs, and structural plants that enjoy full sun to partial shade and well-drained soil. Ideal companions include culinary herbs like garlic, chives, ornamental grasses, and late-summer blooming perennials such as echinacea, nepeta , and rudbeckia which add texture and contrast.
Previously known as Sanguisorba minor
Salad Burnet, native Irish, Lus na uille
Flowers May-September
Native
40cm
Globose flowerheads, the tiny greenish flowers with long reddish styles and yellow anthers. A slightly hairy or hairless plant and the leaves smelling and tasting of cucumber.
Prefers dry, infertile calcareous grasslands and gravel banks.
Poterium sanguisorba thrives alongside other perennials, herbs, and structural plants that enjoy full sun to partial shade and well-drained soil. Ideal companions include culinary herbs like garlic, chives, ornamental grasses, and late-summer blooming perennials such as echinacea, nepeta , and rudbeckia which add texture and contrast.
Previously known as Sanguisorba minor