Sanguisorba minorScop.

Salad Burnet

WFO wfo-0001015888 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h

Sanguisorba minor, photographed by Erin Springinotic
fig. a Erin Springinotic, CC0 1.0 / 2022-06-05 / obs. 203982731
Sanguisorba minor, photographed by Daniel Cahen
fig. b Daniel Cahen, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 203370491
Sanguisorba minor, photographed by Florencia Grattarola
fig. c Florencia Grattarola, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 203637074
Sanguisorba minor, photographed by Vladimír Fuka
fig. d Vladimír Fuka, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 204478474
Sanguisorba minor, photographed by Yann Kemper
fig. e Yann Kemper, CC0 1.0 / obs. 202770924
Sanguisorba minor, photographed by Yann Kemper
fig. f Yann Kemper, CC0 1.0 / obs. 203291686
Sanguisorba minor, photographed by Yann Kemper
fig. g Yann Kemper, CC0 1.0 / obs. 203137051
Sanguisorba minor, photographed by Karen Fry
fig. h Karen Fry, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 203019601

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Flowering n = 992 observations

Peak flowering in May, from 992 community-annotated observations worldwide. This is a global aggregate, not a forecast for your garden: the same species flowers on different dates in different hemispheres, and citizen-science records cluster near cities, at weekends, and in spring. Where a species has fewer than 30 annotated records we do not draw this chart at all.

Also published as 180 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

  • Pimpinella minor (Scop.) Lam.
  • Pimpinella sanguisorba (L.) Gaertn.
  • Poterion sanguisorbens St.-Lag.
  • Poterium alveolatum Spach ex Pomel
  • Poterium alveolosum Spach
  • Poterium alveolosum var. crispum (Pomel) Batt.
  • Poterium alveolosum var. vestitum (Pomel) Batt.
  • Poterium anceps Ball
  • Poterium balearicum (Bourg. ex Nyman) Bourg. ex Porta
  • Poterium ceretanum Sennen
  • Poterium cinctum Lojac.
  • Poterium collinum Salisb.
  • Poterium compactum Boiss.
  • Poterium crispum Pomel
  • Poterium delortii Jord.
  • Poterium dictyocarpum Spach
  • Poterium dictyocarpum var. delortii (Jord.) Nyman
  • Poterium dictyocarpum var. glaucescens (Rchb.) Nyman
  • Poterium dictyocarpum var. glaucum Spach
  • Poterium dictyocarpum var. guestphalicum (Boenn. ex Rchb.) Nyman
  • Poterium dictyocarpum var. obscurum (Jord.) Nyman
  • Poterium dictyocarpum var. virescens Spach
  • Poterium duriaei Willk.
  • Poterium eriocarpum Spach

and 156 more.

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.

We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice, no toxicity claim and no native range, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite.