Salad burnet
Sanguisorba minor · Rose family
Plant portrait
Salad burnet forms a rosette of leaves divided into small toothed leaflets.
Harvested part
The young leaves.
What to watch for
Watch paired leaflets and small flower heads above the clump.
Growth stages of the salad burnet
Plotilo illustrates the salad burnet in 5 stages in 3D: seed, small sprout, young plant, growing and harvest. The models show typical shapes; they do not predict how long growth takes.
- Seed
Starting from a seed. It is shown on the surface to make it visible in this illustration.
- Small sprout
A short first stem and its first small leaves emerge.
- Young plant
The young plant carries more leaves and starts to take its own shape.
- Growing
Leaves and stems develop. Their shape depends on the species.
- Harvest
An illustration of the harvested part. Roots are made visible for clarity; this image does not confirm actual maturity.
Same botanical family
Same botanical family as the salad burnet (the rose family): the strawberry. Gardeners usually avoid growing the same family in the same spot several years in a row: that is the idea behind crop rotation.