Great burnet
Sanguisorba officinalis L.
- light
- Sun–part
- water
- —
- tall
- 99 cm
- wide
- 61 cm
Rosaceae
Also called Great Burnet, Official burnet
Formerly Pimpinella officinalis, Poterium officinale, Sanguisorba andersonii, Sanguisorba angustifolia, and 24 more
When it flowers
Not known yet in the tropics: too few flowering observations to read a season from.
Read from iNaturalist photographs of it in flower. A month counts at 50% of the best month's flowering share (smoothed over three months) and 10% of its flowering count, from at least 100 flowering observations in the band.
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Something wrong with it?About it
- Grows as
- PerennialKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- TemperateKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- Temp. Northern HemisphereKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Light
- Full sun to part shade (3 h or more)Read from Plants for a Future, one source
- Height
- 99 cmRead from Wikipedia and Plants for a Future, checked by a majority of its sourcesBacked by both sources
- Spread
- 61 cmRead from Plants for a Future, one source
- Coldest it survives
- -34.4 °C (USDA zone 4a)Read from Plants for a Future, one source
Not known yet: water, flowers, heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (12)
- German
- Großer Wiesenknopf, Groß-Wiesenknopf
- Italian
- Salvastrella maggiore
- Korean
- 오이풀
- Japanese
- ワレモコウ, 吾亦紅
- French
- Sanguisorbe officinale, Grande pimprenelle, Pimprenelle officinale
- Dutch
- Grote Pimpernel, grote pimpernel, Grote pimpernel
- Czech
- krvavec toten
- Russian
- Кровохлёбка лекарственная
- Vietnamese
- Địa du
- Polish
- Krwiściąg lekarski
- root
- Ымыйах, Bwrned mawr, Blóðkollur
- Finnish
- Punaluppio, punaluppio
Where this comes from
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC0-1.0 (observation counts)
- Wikidata, read 2026-10-25, CC0-1.0
- Kew's checklist, read 2026-10-24, CC-BY-4.0
- Plants for a Future, read 2026-10-26, fact, cited
- Wikipedia, read 2026-10-26, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-25, Public domain
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY-SA
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY-SA
- 3D model: Sanguisorba officinalis (built for Vanagrha) by Vanagrha, own
A fact “checked by a majority of its sources” was settled by a vote of the pages it was read from, not by a person reading it; one marked “one source” rests on that page alone. Anything else not marked checked has not been checked yet. Where nothing is known, the page says so rather than guess.