This makes a lovely ornamental, especially the cultivars. The basal foliage is beautiful, and the bobble-like flowerheads on tall wiry st...Read Moreems can be showy and colorful. Some selected forms can reach 6-7' in height.
The tender new leaves of greater burnet can be used in salads, but S. minor is the burnet grown for salad use and commonly called "salad burnet". Greater burnet has traditionally been used medicinally.
Only the confused call it "greater salad burnet".
This species is native to a broad swath of Europe and Asia to the Pacific. The east Asian forms often are taller and bloom substantially later.
According to BONAP, it is also native to the west coast of N. America from northern CA to BC, and has naturalized in ME and Nova Scotia. On the west coast, its native range extends north into the Yukon and Alaska. http://www.centralcoastbiodiversity.org/great-burnet-bull-sa...
This makes a lovely ornamental, especially the cultivars. The basal foliage is beautiful, and the bobble-like flowerheads on tall wiry st...Read More
This is a delicious herb to eat fresh on sandwiches or pasta. It's leaves have a nice "cucumber taste". The stems are bitter.
This plant self sows very freely in my gardens.