Sanguisorba minor, also named salad burnet, garden burnet and pimpernelle amongst others, is an edible perennial herbaceous plant in the family Rosaceae. This species usually grows in dryish alkaline or neutral meadows.
Salad burnet has ferny, toothed-leaf foliage forming a basal rosette and unusual crimson, spherical flower clusters [see today’s photograph] with a diameter of 1 to 3 cm, risen well above the leaves on thin stems. The flowers are either male or female and both genders are produced on the same individual plant. The large, long taproots store water, making it drought tolerant.