1. European garden herb with purple-tinged flowers and leaves that are sometimes used for salads
   "She added fresh burnet bloodwort leaves to the mixed greens";
   - salad burnet, pimpernel, Poterium sanguisorba

1. Leaves sometimes used for salad
   "She added a handful of salad burnet leaves to give the mixed greens a cucumber-like flavour"

1. A genus of perennial herbs in the rose family, including the garden burnet (Sanguisorba minor)
   "Burnet leaves are sometimes used in salads or as a garnish"

Type of: herb, herbaceous plant, salad green, salad greens

Part of: genus Poterium, Poterium

Encyclopedia: Salad burnet