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Salad Burnet

Kingdom:	Plantae
Division:	Magnoliophyta
Class:	Magnoliopsida
Order:	Rosales
Family:	Rosaceae
Genus:	Sanguisorba
Species:	S. Plants are living Organisms belonging to the kingdom Plantae. The flowering plants or angiosperms ( Angiospermae or Magnoliophyta) are the most widespread group Magnoliopsida is the Botanical name for a class of Flowering plants By definition the class will include the family Magnoliaceae, but its For other meanings see Rosales (disambiguation. Rosales is an order of Flowering plants including nine families The Rosaceae or Rose family is a large family of Plants with about 3000-4000 species in 100-160 genera Sanguisorba is a genus of 15-20 species of perennial herbs or small shrubs in the family Rosaceae, native to the temperate regions of the Northern Hemisphere minor

Binomial name

Sanguisorba minor
Scop.

Salad Burnet (Sanguisorba minor) is a plant in the family Rosaceae, native to western, central and southern Europe, northwest Africa and southwest Asia. Giovanni Antonio Scopoli (sometimes Latinized as Johannes Antonius Scopoli) ( June 3, 1723 &ndash May 8, 1788) was a Tyrolian The Rosaceae or Rose family is a large family of Plants with about 3000-4000 species in 100-160 genera It is a perennial herbaceous plant growing to 40-90 cm tall, typically found in dry grassy meadows, often on limestone soils. A perennial plant or perennial ( Latin per, "through" annus, "year" is a Plant that lives for more than A herbaceous plant (or in botanical use a Herb) is a Plant that has leaves and stems that die down at the end of Limestone is a Sedimentary rock composed largely of the Mineral Calcite ( Calcium carbonate: CaCO3 It is drought tolerant, and grows all year around.

It is also an ingredient used in both salads and dressings, having a flavor described as "light cucumber". The cucumber ( Cucumis sativus) is a widely cultivated plant in the Gourd family Cucurbitaceae, which includes squash, and in the same It is considered interchangeable with mint leaves in some recipes, depending on the intended effect. Typically, the youngest leaves are used, as they tend to become bitter as they age.

Salad burnet has the same medicinal qualities as medicinal burnet (Sanguisorba officinalis). Sanguisorba officinalis ( Great Burnet) is a plant in the family Rosaceae, subfamily Rosoideae.

It also has a respectable history, called a favorite herb by Francis Bacon, and being brought to the New World with its first English colonists, even getting special mention by Thomas Jefferson. Francis Bacon 1st Viscount St Alban KC QC (22 January 1561 – 9 April 1626 was an English Philosopher, Statesman, and author Thomas Jefferson (April 13 1743 – July 4 1826 was the third President of the United States (1801–1809 the principal author of the Declaration of Independence

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