Poterium sanguisorba

Garden burnet

Family: Rosaceae · Type: perennial · Not Native

Garden burnet is a naturalized perennial found in the California Floristic Province, excluding the Sierra Nevada Highlands, in open and disturbed areas at elevations of 22 to 1,830 meters. Flowering from March to July, this plant produces small greenish-white to purple flowers in compact, spherical clusters 7 to 30 millimeters long. Growing with erect, tufted stems 20 to 70 centimeters tall, it develops a robust taproot and forms dense clumps. Its basal leaves are pinnately compound with 4 to 10 leaflets on each side, each leaflet round-oblong and 5 to 20 millimeters long with fine teeth. The fruit is approximately 5 millimeters long with short-winged angles and a raised, bumpy surface texture.

Habitat: Open, especially disturbed areas

Bloom period: Mar-Jul

Elevation: 22-1830 m

Bioregions: CA-FP (exc SNH)

California counties: Kern, Nevada, Los Angeles, Monterey, Butte, Yuba, Tehama, Lassen, Placer, San Luis Obispo, Shasta, Marin, San Bernardino, Santa Barbara, Plumas, Alpine, San Diego, Sierra, Alameda, Colusa, Lake, Santa Cruz, Yolo, Madera, Sonoma, El Dorado, San Mateo

Data from The California Species Project — 14,000+ California species with verified data from CNPS, CDFW, USFWS, Jepson eFlora, Cal-IPC, and more.