Irish wildflowers BSBI map

Salad Burnet, Poterium sanguisorba, Lus an uille
Photographs: Aughinish, Co. Limerick

Salad Burnet
Poterium sanguisorba (Sanguisorba minor)
Lus an uille
Family: Rosaceae

Flowering time: May-September. Perennial. Native.

Globose flowerheads, the tiny greenish flowers with long reddish styles and yellow anthers. The basal leaves are pinnate with 3-12 pairs of greyish-green toothed leaflets. A slightly hairy or hairlesss plant, the leaves smelling and tasting of cucumber. Height: 15-40cm.

Prefers dry, infertile calcareous grasslands and gravel banks. Scattered distribution, mainly eastern, central and western Ireland.

Salad Burnet, Poterium sanguisorba, Lus an uille

Salad Burnet, Poterium sanguisorba, Lus an uille
Salad Burnet, Poterium sanguisorba (Sanguisorba minor), Lus an uille

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