Sanguisorba minor ‘Little Angel’ Burnet
USDA Zone: 4-9

With herbal remedies and a culture promoting self sustainability on the rise this all star is one of many important plants is the Little angel, which is botanically known as Sanguisorba minor.  Detailed below are some of the amazing benefits of salad burnet (sanguisorba minor). Salad burnet is originally from Europe, Asia and Africa before spreading to the other parts of the world. Sanguisorba minor is a perennial herbaceous plant that belongs to the family of Rosaceae.


Also known as small burnet or garden burnet, this plant is distinguished by its closely formed clumps that grow in loose rosettes. Salad burnet thrives mainly on limestone soils and dry grasslands all year round and measures up to 90 centimetres tall.


Small burnet is best consumed while the leaves are still very tender before transforming into hard bitter flowers. It usually grows in the form of rhizomes and has a similar taste with cucumber but tends to be bitter during dry weather conditions. Salad Burnet leaves consist of roughly 12 pairs of toothed, roundish, leaflets that cluster into a rosette. Salad burnet is mainly cultivated using the seeds and can be harvested during the early season of the year when the leaves are still very tender.


This is a newly introduced, unique, dwarf burnet with spreading, evergreen, green and white variegated foliage topped with maroon button flowers on strong, slender stems in late summer. A form of the British native salad burnet, so the leaves are in fact edible, best when young, lending a slightly nutty or cucumber flavour to salads.

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