Sanguisorba stipulata (Canadian burnet)

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Sanguisorba stipulata, photographed by Donald Hampton — fig. a Donald Hampton, CC BY-SA 4.0 / 2021-08-29 / obs. 154487493

Sanguisorba stipulata, photographed by Bruce Slater — fig. b Bruce Slater, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 153676194

Sanguisorba stipulata, photographed by Syd Cannings — fig. c Syd Cannings, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 152840601

Sanguisorba stipulata, photographed by Matt Muir — fig. d Matt Muir, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 151097872

Sanguisorba stipulata, photographed by Jason Grant — fig. f Jason Grant, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 143800695

Sanguisorba stipulata, photographed by J Straka — fig. g J Straka, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 91047556

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Native range 14 botanical countries

Native distribution of Sanguisorba stipulata, after Kew’s World Checklist of Vascular Plants. Introduced, extinct and doubtful records are excluded, so this is where the plant is from, not everywhere it now grows. Regions too small to draw at this scale are marked with a dot.

Region	TDWG code	Continent
China North-Central	CHN	ASIA-TEMPERATE
Japan	JAP
Khabarovsk	KHA
Korea	KOR
Magadan	MAG
Manchuria	CHM
Primorye	PRM
Sakhalin	SAK
Alaska	ASK	NORTHERN AMERICA
British Columbia	BRC
Idaho	IDA
Oregon	ORE
Washington	WAS
Yukon	YUK

Region boundaries approximated from Natural Earth (public domain) and mapped to TDWG World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions (WGSRPD) level-3 botanical countries (Brummitt 2001). Indicative, not the official WGSRPD geometry.

Also published as 18 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.

Poterium sitchense (C.A.Mey.) S.Watson
Sanguisorba canadensis subsp. latifolia (Hook.) Calder & Roy L.Taylor
Sanguisorba canadensis var. latifolia Hook.
Sanguisorba canadensis var. pilosa (H.Hara) T.Shimizu
Sanguisorba canadensis var. riishirensis (Makino) T.Shimizu
Sanguisorba canadensis var. sitchensis (C.A.Mey.) Koidz.
Sanguisorba chlorantha Nakai ex H.Hara
Sanguisorba latifolia (Hook.) Coville
Sanguisorba riishirensis Makino
Sanguisorba sitchensis C.A.Mey.
Sanguisorba sitchensis var. bracteosa H.Hara
Sanguisorba sitchensis var. pilosa H.Hara
Sanguisorba sitchensis var. riishirensis (Makino) Kudô
Sanguisorba sitchensis var. typica H.Hara
Sanguisorba stipulata var. bracteosa (H.Hara) H.Hara
Sanguisorba stipulata var. latifolia (Hook.) H.Hara
Sanguisorba stipulata var. pilosa (H.Hara) H.Hara
Sanguisorba stipulata var. riishirensis (Makino) H.Hara

Sourcesevery claim on this page

World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.
Wikidata. common name (P1843), joined on the World Flora Online identifier (P7715). CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-13.
Kew, World Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP v16). native distribution by TDWG level-3 botanical country, and life form. CC BY 3.0. Retrieved 2026-06-04.

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