Burnet (Great)

GREAT BURNET

Sanguisorba Officinalis

Rose Family [Rosaceae]  

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13th Aug 2007, Kiveton Bridge, South Yorkshire. Photo: © RWD
Tall and spindley, about 30 inches high.


30th July 2007, Near Marsden, West Yorkshire. Photo: © RWD
Dark brown/red flower heads atop branched stems.


7th Aug 2001, Dalegarth, Eskdale Valley, Cumbria. Photo: © RWD
The stem leaves are few.


9th Sept 2006, Newlands Valley, Cumbria. Photo: © RWD


9th Sept 2006, Newlands Valley, Cumbria. Photo: © RWD


6th July 2007, Little Langdale Valley, Cumbria Photo: © RWD
The four petals open revealing four seeds within.


6th July 2007, Little Langdale Valley, Cumbria Photo: © RWD


6th July 2007, Little Langdale Valley, Cumbria Photo: © RWD
The leaves are pinnate, with pronounced forwardly-directed triangular teeth.


24th Aug 2006, Dunsop Bridge, Forest of Bowland. Photo: © RWD
Leaves typical of Rose Family members.


Distinguishing Feature : The flowers are all clustered together in a hard deep-red or nearly brown prolate spherical head. The leaves are typical rose-type, but but much narrower and slightly longer than typical members of the rose family. Like the rose family, the leaves are conspicuously coarsely toothed.

Unlike most members of the rose family, Great Burnet has only four petals, not five. The flowers are all clustered together in a hard deep-red or nearly brown prolate spherical head.

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Sanguisorba

GREAT BURNET

Sanguisorba Officinalis

Rose Family [Rosaceae]