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Sanguisorba minor

Citation: Scop., Fl. Carniolica edn 2, 1:110 (1772) subsp. muricata Briq., Prod. Fl. Corse 2:298 (1913).

Synonymy: Poterium polygamum Waldst. & Kitaib., Descr.& Icon. Pl. rar. Hungar. 2:217 (1805); P. sanguisorba sensu J. Black, Fl. S. Aust. 398 (1948).

Common name: Sheeps burnet, salad burner.

Description:
Rootstock perennial, with erect or ascending annual stems; leaves of 9-21 orbicular to elliptic toothed leaflets; leaflets 5-20 mm long.

Heads 1-3 cm diam., upper flowers in the head female, lower male; fruit 3-8 mm long, the angles winged, containing 1-3 achenes.

image of FSA1_Sanguisorba_min.jpg Sanguisorba minor
Image source: fig 245 in Jessop J.P. & Toelken H.R. (Ed.) 1986. Flora of South Australia (4th edn).

Distribution:    W.Aust.; N.S.W.; Vic.; Tas.   Native to Europe.

Conservation status: naturalised

Flowering time: Oct. — Jan.


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