Common name: Salad Burnet

Scientific name: Poterium sanguisorba

Family: Rosaceae

Uses: Decorative, culinary.Attractive flowers. For culinary use. Use for flavoring. Use in vinegars. Use in containers.

History: The word sanguisorba means "to drink up blood." Salad Burnet was long believed to stop hemorrhages although no modern evidence has shown this to be true.