''Sanguisorba'' is a genus of flowering plants in the family

Rosaceae Rosaceae (), the rose family, is a medium-sized family of flowering plants that includes 4,828 known species in 91 genera. The name is derived from the type genus ''Rosa''. Among the most species-rich genera are '' Alchemilla'' (270), '' Sorbu ...

native to the temperate regions of the Northern Hemisphere. The common name is burnet.

Description

The plants are

herbaceous Herbaceous plants are vascular plants that have no persistent woody stems above ground. This broad category of plants includes many perennials, and nearly all annuals and biennials. Definitions of "herb" and "herbaceous" The fourth edition ...

perennial A perennial plant or simply perennial is a plant that lives more than two years. The term ('' per-'' + '' -ennial'', "through the years") is often used to differentiate a plant from shorter-lived annuals and biennials. The term is also wide ...

s or small shrubs. The stems grow to 50–200 cm tall and have a cluster of basal leaves, with further leaves arranged alternately up the stem. The leaves are pinnate, 5–30 cm long, with 7-25 leaflets, the leaflets with a serrated margin. Young leaves grow from the crown in the center of the plant. The flowers are small, produced in dense clusters 5–20 mm long; each flower has four very small petals, white to red in colour.

Species

The following species are accepted: *'' Sanguisorba albanica'' András. & Jáv. *''

Sanguisorba albiflora ''Sanguisorba'' is a genus of flowering plants in the family Rosaceae native to the temperate regions of the Northern Hemisphere. The common name is burnet. Description The plants are herbaceous perennials or small shrubs. The stems grow to 50 ...

'' (Makino) Makino *''

Sanguisorba alpina ''Sanguisorba'' is a genus of flowering plants in the family Rosaceae native to the temperate regions of the Northern Hemisphere. The common name is burnet. Description The plants are herbaceous perennials or small shrubs. The stems grow to 5 ...

'' Bunge *''

Sanguisorba ancistroides ''Sanguisorba'' is a genus of flowering plants in the family Rosaceae native to the temperate regions of the Northern Hemisphere. The common name is burnet. Description The plants are herbaceous perennials or small shrubs. The stems grow to 5 ...

'' (Desf.) Ces. *''

Sanguisorba annua ''Sanguisorba annua'' is a species of flowering plant in the rose family known by the common names annual burnet and prairie burnet. It is native to North America, including many areas in western and central Canada and the United States. It can ...

'' (Nutt. ex Hook.) Torr. & A.Gray – annual burnet, prairie burnet, western burnet *''

Sanguisorba applanata ''Sanguisorba'' is a genus of flowering plants in the family Rosaceae native to the temperate regions of the Northern Hemisphere. The common name is burnet. Description The plants are herbaceous perennials or small shrubs. The stems grow to 50 ...

'' T.T.Yu & C.L.Li *''

Sanguisorba armena ''Sanguisorba'' is a genus of flowering plants in the family Rosaceae native to the temperate regions of the Northern Hemisphere. The common name is burnet. Description The plants are herbaceous perennials or small shrubs. The stems grow to 50 ...

'' Boiss. *''

Sanguisorba azovtsevii ''Sanguisorba'' is a genus of flowering plants in the family Rosaceae native to the temperate regions of the Northern Hemisphere. The common name is burnet. Description The plants are herbaceous perennials or small shrubs. The stems grow to 50 ...

'' Krasnob. & Pshenich. *'' Sanguisorba canadensis'' L. – Canadian burnet, white burnet *'' Sanguisorba cretica'' Hayek *'' Sanguisorba diandra'' (Hook.f.) Nordborg *''

Sanguisorba dodecandra ''Sanguisorba'' is a genus of flowering plants in the family Rosaceae native to the temperate regions of the Northern Hemisphere. The common name is burnet. Description The plants are herbaceous perennials or small shrubs. The stems grow to 5 ...

'' Moretti – Italian burnet *''

Sanguisorba durui ''Sanguisorba'' is a genus of flowering plants in the family Rosaceae native to the temperate regions of the Northern Hemisphere. The common name is burnet. Description The plants are herbaceous perennials or small shrubs. The stems grow to 5 ...

'' Yild. *''

Sanguisorba filiformis ''Sanguisorba'' is a genus of flowering plants in the family Rosaceae native to the temperate regions of the Northern Hemisphere. The common name is burnet. Description The plants are herbaceous perennials or small shrubs. The stems grow to 5 ...

'' (Hook.f.) Hand.-Mazz. *'' Sanguisorba hakusanensis'' Makino *'' Sanguisorba hybrida'' (L.) Font Quer *'' Sanguisorba indica'' (Gardner) Tirveng. *'' Sanguisorba japonensis'' (Makino) Kudô *'' Sanguisorba × kishinamii'' Honda *'' Sanguisorba lateriflora'' (Coss.) A.Braun & C.D.Bouché *'' Sanguisorba longifolia'' Bertol. *'' Sanguisorba magnifica'' I.Schischk. & Kom. *'' Sanguisorba mauritanica'' Desf. *'' Sanguisorba megacarpa'' (Lowe) Muñoz Garm. & C.Navarro *'' Sanguisorba menendezii'' (Svent.) Nordborg – Canary Islands burnet *''

Sanguisorba minor ''Sanguisorba minor'', the salad burnet, garden burnet, small burnet, burnet (also used for '' Sanguisorba'' generally), pimpernelle, Toper's plant, and burnet-bloodwort, is an edible perennial herbaceous plant in the family Rosaceae. It has f ...

'' Scop. – salad burnet, garden burnet, little burnet *''

Sanguisorba obtusa ''Sanguisorba obtusa'', the Japanese burnet, is a species of flowering plant in the family Rosaceae, native to Japan ( Honshu). Growing up to tall by broad, this rhizomatous herbaceous Herbaceous plants are vascular plants that have no persi ...

'' Maxim. – Japanese burnet *''

Sanguisorba occidentalis ''Sanguisorba'' is a genus of flowering plants in the family Rosaceae native to the temperate regions of the Northern Hemisphere. The common name is burnet. Description The plants are herbaceous perennials or small shrubs. The stems grow to 50 ...

'' Nutt. *''

Sanguisorba officinalis ''Sanguisorba officinalis'', commonly known as great burnet, is a plant in the family Rosaceae, subfamily Rosoideae. It is native throughout the cooler regions of the Northern Hemisphere in Europe, northern Asia, and northern North America. It ...

'' L. – great burnet, burnet bloodwort *'' Sanguisorba × poroshirensis'' S.Watan. *''

Sanguisorba × pseudo-officinalis ''Sanguisorba'' is a genus of flowering plants in the family Rosaceae native to the temperate regions of the Northern Hemisphere. The common name is burnet. Description The plants are herbaceous perennials or small shrubs. The stems grow to 50 ...

'' Naruh. *''

Sanguisorba riparia ''Sanguisorba'' is a genus of flowering plants in the family Rosaceae native to the temperate regions of the Northern Hemisphere. The common name is burnet. Description The plants are herbaceous perennials or small shrubs. The stems grow to 5 ...

'' Juz. *''

Sanguisorba rupicola ''Sanguisorba'' is a genus of flowering plants in the family Rosaceae native to the temperate regions of the Northern Hemisphere. The common name is burnet. Description The plants are herbaceous perennials or small shrubs. The stems grow to 50 ...

'' (Boiss. & Reut.) A.Braun & C.D.Bouché *''

Sanguisorba sirnakia ''Sanguisorba'' is a genus of flowering plants in the family Rosaceae native to the temperate regions of the Northern Hemisphere. The common name is burnet. Description The plants are herbaceous perennials or small shrubs. The stems grow to 50 ...

'' Yild. *''

Sanguisorba stipulata ''Sanguisorba'' is a genus of flowering plants in the family Rosaceae native to the temperate regions of the Northern Hemisphere. The common name is burnet. Description The plants are herbaceous perennials or small shrubs. The stems grow to 50 ...

'' Raf. *''

Sanguisorba × takahashihideoi ''Sanguisorba'' is a genus of flowering plants in the family Rosaceae native to the temperate regions of the Northern Hemisphere. The common name is burnet. Description The plants are herbaceous perennials or small shrubs. The stems grow to 5 ...

'' Naruh. *''

Sanguisorba tenuifolia ''Sanguisorba'' is a genus of flowering plants in the family Rosaceae native to the temperate regions of the Northern Hemisphere. The common name is burnet. Description The plants are herbaceous perennials or small shrubs. The stems grow to 50 ...

'' Fisch. ex Link

Ecology

'' is a food plant for the larvae of the

grizzled skipper ''Pyrgus'' is a genus in the skippers butterfly family, Hesperiidae, known as the grizzled skippers. The name "checkered" or "chequered skipper" may also be applied to some species, but also refers to species in the genera ''Burnsius'' and '' ...

(''Pyrgus malvae'') and the

mouse moth The mouse moth (''Amphipyra tragopoginis'') is a moth of the family Noctuidae. It is a widespread species with a Holarctic distribution. Distribution Europe (except the extreme north, and not occurring in the south of Spain, Sicily, or the Balkan ...

(''Amphipyra tragopoginis'').

Cultivation and uses

Burnets are cultivated as garden plants. Many

cultivar A cultivar is a type of cultivated plant that people have selected for desired traits and when propagated retain those traits. Methods used to propagate cultivars include: division, root and stem cuttings, offsets, grafting, tissue culture ...

s have been bred, especially from '' S. officinalis''. '' S. canadensis'' is grown for its white flowers on stems that well exceed a meter tall. The plants

hybridize Hybridization (or hybridisation) may refer to: * Hybridization (biology), the process of combining different varieties of organisms to create a hybrid * Orbital hybridization, in chemistry, the mixing of atomic orbitals into new hybrid orbitals * ...

easily, producing new mixes.Sutton, J
''Sanguisorba'' in Cultivation.
''The Plantsman''. Royal Horticultural Society. June, 2007. 78-83. '' S. obtusa'' is valued for its foliage of pink-edged, gray-green leaves.Bourne, V
How to grow: ''Sanguisorba''.
''The Daily Telegraph'' September 21, 2002. ''Sanguisorba officinalis'' is used medicinally in Asia to treat gastrointestinal conditions and bleeding. ''Sanguisorba minor'', salad burnet, has similarly been used medicinally in Europe to control bleeding. The leaves have a cucumber flavour and can be eaten in salads, or used fresh or dried and made into a tea.

Etymology

The Latin genus name ''Sanguisorba'' means ‘blood stauncher’. ‘Sanguis’ is a cognate with ‘sanguine’, meaning 'blood'. ‘Sorbeo’ means 'to staunch’. The plant is known to have

styptic An antihemorrhagic (antihæmorrhagic) agent is a substance that promotes hemostasis (stops bleeding). It may also be known as a hemostatic (also spelled haemostatic) agent. Antihemorrhagic agents used in medicine have various mechanisms of action: ...

properties.

References

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