What it is
Salad Burnet (Sanguisorba minor) is in the Rosaceae (Rose) family. A cucumber-flavored evergreen herb for cool-season salads. Tough, drought-tolerant, and underused.
How to grow it
It wants full sun to part shade, water it low, and give it lean, well-drained soil. Target a soil pH around 6.0–7.5. Space plants about 12 in apart. Expect roughly Cut as needed. Hardy perennial.
How it's used
Salad Burnet is used: fresh young leaves.
🔎 How to identify it
- Rounded toothed leaflets in pairs
- Low rosette
- Reddish button flowers
Edibility
PartsYoung leaves
UsesFresh young leaves
CautionOlder leaves toughen.
🌤 Before you plant: check the live 7-day garden weather to time it right for frost and heat.
Part of the free Texas Roots plant database, compiled by Jordan Polasek from his greenhouse in El Campo, Texas. Free to read and share. If it helped, the best thanks is to grow something.