Fodder Burnet - Poterium sanguisorba subsp. balearica
More leafy and robust than the true native, and often arising from wildflower seed. Leaves sharply toothed. The fruits are usually winged at the angles, and are often wrinkled. Intermediates occur.
Salad Burnet (true native speces) is a grassland speces of calcareous and occasionally neutral grasslands
photographs of plant in situ; note habitat
roadside verges, new open spaces, waste ground, grasslands
Graham Calow
Sapcote, field behind William Spencer Avenue
26 May 2025
Graham Calow
Sapcote, field behind William Spencer Avenue
26 May 2025
Graham Calow
Sapcote, field behind William Spencer Avenue
26 May 2025
Graham Calow
Sapcote, field behind William Spencer Avenue
26 May 2025
Dylan
Melton Kirby Lane
10 May 2025
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Species profile
- Common names
- Fodder Burnet
- Species group:
- flowering plant
- Kingdom:
- Plantae
- Order:
- Rosales
- Family:
- Rosaceae
- Records on NatureSpot:
- 8
- First record:
- 23/04/2025 (Pugh, Dylan)
- Last record:
- 21/05/2026 (Mabbett, Craig)
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Ectoedemia angulifasciella
The larva of the moth Ectoedemia angulifasciella mines the leaves of rose species and sometimes Salad Burnet beginning as a contorted gallery filled with brownish frass and then widening into a blotch with central or dispersed blackish frass.
Agromyza sulfuriceps
The larva of the Agromyzid fly Agromyza sulfuriceps mines the leaves of various species in the Rosaceae family including Roses, Meadowsweet, Strawberry, Silverweed, Cinquefoil, Raspberry and Burnets. The mine starts as a long corridor, its initial part often along the leaf margin or a thick vein. Rather suddenly the corridor widens into a broad blotch. The corridor contains much frass, often in two distinct patches or lines.
Aceria sanguisorbae
The mite Aceria sanguisorbae causes galls to form on various Sanguisorba/Poterium species. The leaves, stems and sometimes the flower buds are covered in thick white, or yellow-white felt like erinea containing the mites.