Common name:
Great burnet
Family:
Scientific name:
Sanguisorba officinalis
Main flower color:
Range:
England and Wales
Height:
Up to 100 cm
Habitat:
Damp meadows
Flowers:
Red-purple, around 2 mm across, with four overlapping sepals, four short, yellow stamens and one pistil, arranged in dense, crowded clusters up to 2 cm long, on grooved stalks, subtended by triangular red bracts
Leaves:
Hairless, pinnately divided into a terminal leaflet and between three to seven pairs of side leaflets; all lined by large, sharp, equal-sized teeth. Leaflets become larger towards the leaf tip, up to 4 cm long
Season:
June to September
Rarity:
★★★★★
