Photographs: Aughinish, Co. Limerick

Salad Burnet Poterium sanguisorba (Sanguisorba minor) Lus an uille Family: Rosaceae Flowering time: May-September. Perennial. Native. Globose flowerheads, the tiny greenish flowers with long reddish styles and yellow anthers. The basal leaves are pinnate with 3-12 pairs of greyish-green toothed leaflets. A slightly hairy or hairlesss plant, the leaves smelling and tasting of cucumber. Height: 15-40cm. Prefers dry, infertile calcareous grasslands and gravel banks. Scattered distribution, mainly eastern, central and western Ireland.

Salad Burnet, Poterium sanguisorba (Sanguisorba minor), Lus an uille