Family: Rosaceae Salad Burnet Poterium sanguisorba subsp. sanguisorba (Sanguisorba minor) Flowering time: May-September. Perennial. Native Can be locally abundant on dry, infertile calcareous grasslands Globular flowerheads of very small greenish flowers with reddish styles or yellow anthers. The basal leaves are pinnate with 3-12 pairs of grey-green leaflets. The plant smells slightly of cucumber and can be used in salads. Similar: Fodder Burnet, Poterium sanguisorba subsp. balearicum is a larger introduced plant often included in wildflower mixtures

Salad Burnet, Poterium sanguisorba
Godlingston Hill, Dorset. October 2012 and May 2013