Sanguisorba minor, the salad burnet, garden burnet, small burnet, burnet, pimpernelle, Toper's plant, and burnet-bloodwort, is an edible perennial with ferny, toothed-leaf foliage, the unusual crimson colour. Spherical flower clusters rise well above the leaves on thin stems, and bloom May to August. The large, long taproots store water, making it drought-tolerant.

It is evergreen to semi-evergreen; in warmer climates grows all year around, and in cold climates it stays green until heavy snow cover occurs. 

Salad burnet is native to western, central and southern Europe; northwest Africa, southwest Western Asia and Siberia, and naturalized in most of North America, in South America, Australia, Britain and New Zealand. It is not generally invasive, co-existing with other plants and increasing species diversity. 

It is grown in containers, wildflower meadows, ornamental gardens, and kitchen gardens, usually in sunny or very slightly shady spaces . In North America, it is grown on dry rangelands. 

Type: Hardy perennial

Hardiness zones: 4-8

Height: 24", 60cm

Location: Sun or part shade

Seeds per packet: 25