Salad Burnet

About Salad Burnet

A compact perennial with leaves that taste like cucumber. It was a staple of Elizabethan England, used in every salad and cup of wine. Thomas Jefferson grew it at Monticello. The leaves are attractive and lacy. It is evergreen in mild climates, providing fresh greens year-round. It has astringent properties and was used to stop bleeding. It is one of the few herbs in the rose family. It grows 30-60 cm tall. It self-seeds freely. It is relatively unknown in modern cooking but easy to grow. The young leaves have the best flavor.