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SKU: D2LSC 5457022050
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Great Burnet (Sanguisorba Officinalis) – 1 Gallon Pot

Original price was: $28.85.Current price is: $20.20.

SKU: D2LSC 5457022050 Category: HERB PLANTS

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Great Burnet

Sanguisorba officinalis

Other Names: Greater Burnet, Greater Salad Burnet, Burnet Bloodwort

Plant Details

USDA Plant Hardiness Zones: 4a-8b Find Your Zone

Plant Type: Herbaceous Perennial

Height at Maturity: 2.5-3′

Width at Maturity: 2-3′
Spacing: 24-36″ for mass plantings

Growth Habit / Form: Upright Clump

Growth Rate: Fast

Flower Color: Deep Red to Deep Purple-Red

Flower Size: 1.5″ long

Flowering Period: Late Spring to Early Summer

Flower Type: Bottlebrush like spikes – edible

Fragrant Flowers: No

Foliage Color: Medium Green – edible leaves

Fragrant Foliage: No

Berries: No

Berry Color: No

Sun Needs: Full to Mostly Sun

Water Needs: Average

Soil Type: Clay (amend heavy clay to ensure good drainage), Loam, Sandy, Silt

Soil Moisture / Drainage: Moist But Well Drained

Soil pH: 6.0 – 8.0 (Acid to Slightly Alkaline)

Maintenance / Care: Low

Attracts: Bees, Pollinators, Visual Attention

Resistances: Deer, Disease, Heat, Humidity, Insect, Rabbit

Description

Great Burnet, also known as Salad Burnet, is often grown as a culinary herb but is also attractive ornamentally. Growing to 3 feet tall and equally as wide, it is a wonderful addition to herb, vegetable, wildflower, prairie and meadow gardens where it will grow and flower for years to come. It also serves beautifully as a filler plant in flowering shrub and ornamental grass borders as the flower stalks will sit nicely among other plants. In late spring to early summer, atop thin tall green stems it produces abundant clusters of showy deep red flowers that are similar in appearance to an elongated clover bloom. Its very attractive compound odd-pinnate, medium green, basal leaves with 7 to 25 serrate leaflets each remain clean throughout the season. The young leaves have a spicy flavor that can can be added to salads and many dishes and the flower buds to salads. If you’re growing it primarily for culinary purposes, the plant can be cut back to encourage new growth, as the youngest leaves are the tastiest.

Landscape & Garden Uses

Growing 2 to 3 feet tall and wide in sunny conditions, Great Burnet is ideal for use in herb and culinary gardens and as a filler in perennial, flowering shrub and ornamental grass gardens. Excellent for those areas in the garden where the soil tends to stay consistently damp to moist. A fine addition to wildflower gardens, meadow gardens, prairie gardens, herb gardens, vegetable gardens, native gardens and red color theme gardens.

Suggested Spacing: 24 to 36 inches apart for mass plantings

Growing Preferences

The Great Burnet is very easy to grow in moist but well-drained soil in full sun or part shade. Provide at least 5 hours of direct sun for best flowering. Will tolerate short dry periods but will appreciate supplemental water during prolonged periods of drought. The plant will spread through self-seeding. To discourage self-seeding, remove the flowers once they have bloomed. Intolerant of drought and shade but does tolerate alkaline soils and browsing by deer.

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