Salad Burnet

Poterium sanguisorba A perennial herb, widespread and common, it occurs in calcareous grassland and flowers from May to August.

Salad burnet was taken by the Pilgrim Fathers to the New World. Matthew Robinson in The New Family Herbal says about the herb: ‘The continued use of it preserves the body in health and the mind in vigour … Two or three of the stalks, with leaves put into a cup of wine, especially claret, are known to quicken the spirits and drive away melancholy.’