Salad burnet
Sanguisorba minor
A perennial with cucumber-flavored pinnate leaves. A medieval salad herb that still earns a corner in a cool garden.
GROW → HARVEST → EAT → DRY → POWDER → CAPSULE → GUMMY — forms are not equivalent. Food first.
Identity
What it is
A perennial with cucumber-flavored pinnate leaves. A medieval salad herb that still earns a corner in a cool garden.
Edible portions
- young leaves
Absence of a portion from this list means it is not treated as food here — not that every other part is toxic.
Growing
- Climate. 4–8
- Light. Full sun
- Soil. Well-drained
- Planting. A tidy clump. Cut flowers to keep leaves.
- Harvest. Young leaves; older get tough and bitter.
Preparation and culinary uses
- Salads, drinks, as a cucumber note without a cucumber
Next steps
Sources
- USDA PLANTS Database — taxonomy and range (verify current entries)
- No USDA FoodData Central nutrient profile is attached here. That is not a claim that the plant contains no nutrients.
- State cooperative extension growing guides — verify for your region
Honest incompleteness is preferred to fabricated completeness. If a section is missing, no record for it is attached here — not a claim that the plant lacks that characteristic, and not that it was omitted as a secret.
Internal quality class B. Good foundation: enough unique information to exist as its own destination.