Citation: L., Sp. Pl. 116 (1753).

Derivation: Latin sanguis, blood; sorbere, to absorb; referring to the supposed property of one species to stop bleeding.

Synonymy: Not Applicable

Common name: None

Description:
Perennial herbs with erect or ascending stems and basal or alternate pinnate leaves; stipules similar to the leaflets.

Flowers small, green, bisexual or polygamous, in dense terminal heads; epicalyx 0; sepals 4, caducous; petals 0; stamens 20-30, drooping.

Carpels 1-3, each with 1 pendulous ovule and a slender style ending in a reddish tufted stigma, enclosed in the receptacular tube which becomes hard and dry ovoid-quadrangular and irregularly wrinkled and pitted.

Distribution:  About 30 species in the Northern Hermisphere. Although other authors do not all agree, M. C. F. Proctor & G. Nordborg (1968), Flora Europaea 2:33, is followed in combining Poterium L. with Sanguisorba.

Biology: No text

Author: Not yet available