sanguisorba

Definitions

noun A former genus of rosaceous plants, now included as a subgenus in the genus Poterium, distinguished from others of that genus by its single carpel, smooth hard fruit, and stamens not more than twelve.

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I think I still have some sanguisorba blooming, and some nodding pink onion.

Will You Hang On … « Fairegarden 2009
Hi Benjamin, you have a plant that I am struggling to get going here, the sanguisorba.

Will You Hang On … « Fairegarden 2009
Smaller than this Common Burnet is the Salad Burnet, _Poterium sanguisorba, quod sanguineos fluxus sistat_, a useful [431] styptic, which is also cordial, and promotes perspiration.

Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure William Thomas Fernie
Flowering plants include centaurea, cranesbills, linaria, knautia and sanguisorba - all hand-mixed and hand-sown.

Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2011
It was known by older writers as Pimpinella sanguisorba, Pimpinella being a corruption of bipennula, from the two pinnate leaves.

Find Me A Cure 2009
These are more like a sanguisorba flowerhead and very un-thistlelike.

Life and style | guardian.co.uk 2008
I’m still fending off the rabbit from the asters and sanguisorba.

Led By Nature « Fairegarden 2008
The Burnet (_Poterium sanguisorba_) is a native plant of no great beauty or horticultural interest, but it was valued as a good salad plant, the leaves tasting of Cucumber, and Lord Bacon (contemporary with

The plant-lore & garden-craft of Shakespeare Henry Nicholson Ellacombe 1868