Sanguisorba
Sanguisorba | |
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Flower head of Sanguisorba minor | |
Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Plantae |
Clade: | Tracheophytes |
Clade: | Angiosperms |
Clade: | Eudicots |
Clade: | Rosids |
Order: | Rosales |
Family: | Rosaceae |
Subfamily: | Rosoideae |
Tribe: | Sanguisorbeae |
Subtribe: | Sanguisorbinae |
Genus: | Sanguisorba L. |
Species | |
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Synonyms | |
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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 50–200 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:[1]
- András. & Jáv.
- (Makino) Makino
- Bunge
- (Desf.) Ces.
- Sanguisorba annua (Nutt. ex Hook.) Torr. & A.Gray – annual burnet, prairie burnet, western burnet
- T.T.Yu & C.L.Li
- Boiss.
- Krasnob. & Pshenich.
- Sanguisorba canadensis L. – Canadian burnet, white burnet
- Hayek
- (Hook.f.) Nordborg
- Moretti – Italian burnet
- Yild.
- (Hook.f.) Hand.-Mazz.
- Sanguisorba hakusanensis Makino
- (L.) Font Quer
- (Gardner) Tirveng.
- (Makino) Kudô
- Honda
- (Coss.) A.Braun & C.D.Bouché
- Bertol.
- I.Schischk. & Kom.
- Desf.
- (Lowe) Muñoz Garm. & C.Navarro
- (Svent.) Nordborg – Canary Islands burnet
- Sanguisorba minor Scop. – salad burnet, garden burnet, little burnet
- Maxim. – Japanese burnet
- Nutt.
- Sanguisorba officinalis L. – great burnet, burnet bloodwort
- S.Watan.
- Naruh.
- Juz.
- (Boiss. & Reut.) A.Braun & C.D.Bouché
- Yild.
- Raf.
- Naruh.
- Fisch. ex Link
Ecology[]
Sanguisorba minor is a food plant for the larvae of the grizzled skipper (Pyrgus malvae) and the mouse moth (Amphipyra tragopoginis).
Cultivation and uses[]
Burnets are cultivated as garden plants. Many cultivars 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 easily, producing new mixes.[2] is valued for its foliage of pink-edged, gray-green leaves.[3]
Sanguisorba officinalis is used medicinally in Asia to treat gastrointestinal conditions and bleeding.[4]
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.[5]
Etymology[]
Sanguisorba means ‘blood stauncher’. ‘Sanguis’ is a cognate with ‘sanguine’, meaning 'blood'. ‘Sorbeo’ means 'to staunch’. The plant is known to have styptic properties.[6]
References[]
- ^ "Sanguisorba L." Plants of the World Online. Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Retrieved 20 May 2021.
- ^ Sutton, J. Sanguisorba in Cultivation. Archived 2013-08-28 at the Wayback Machine The Plantsman. Royal Horticultural Society. June, 2007. 78-83.
- ^ Bourne, V. How to grow: Sanguisorba. The Daily Telegraph September 21, 2002.
- ^ Choi J, Kim MY, Cha BC, Yoo ES, Yoon K, Lee J, Rho HS, Kim SY, Cho JY (January 2012). "ZYM-201 sodium succinate ameliorates streptozotocin-induced hyperlipidemic conditions". Planta Med. 78 (1): 12–7. doi:10.1055/s-0031-1280219. PMID 21928167.
- ^ Bown, Deni (2002). The Royal Horticultural Society New Encyclopaedia of Herbs & Their Uses. London: Dorling Kindersley Limited. ISBN 0-7513-3386-7.
- ^ Gledhill, David (2008). The Names of Plants. MCambridge University Press. p. 339. ISBN 9780521866453.
- Sanguisorba
- Rosaceae genera