Sanguisorba minor, Poterium sanguisorba,
Small burnet, Salad burnet, Garden burnet,
Hebrew: בן-סירה מיובל, Arabic: مرقئة صغيرة

Scientific name:		Sanguisorba minor Scop.
Synonym name:		Poterium sanguisorba L.
Common name:		Small burnet, Salad burnet, Garden burnet, Lesser burnet
Hebrew name:		בן-סירה מיובל
Arabic name:		مرقئة صغيرة
Nederlandse naam:		Kleine pimpernel
Family:		Rosaceae, Rose Family, ורדיים

Life form:		Perennial herbs
Stems:		Up to 20–70 cm, glabrous or hairy, basal leaf rosette; flowering stems erect
Leaves:		Alternate pinnately compound leaves; leaflets oval to oblong, coarsely toothed
Inflorescence:		Headlike to elongate spikes
Flowers:		Capitula 1-3cm, globose to ovoid; hypanthium (floral cup) 3-8mm, usually angled, ridged or winged and with faces reticulate, sculptured or irregularly ridged, flowers white to red in colour
Fruits / pods:		Achene, oblong
Flowering Period:		April, May, June
Habitat:		Batha, Phrygana
Distribution:		Semi-steppe shrublands, Mediterranean Woodlands and Shrublands, Mt. Hermon
Chorotype:		Mediterranean
Summer shedding:		Ephemeral

Derivation of the botanical name: Sanguisorba, Latin, sanguis, blood; sorbeo, to soak up. minor, smaller, inferior, lesser. Poterium, Latin "cup," Greek poterion goblet, beaker or drinking cup. The standard author abbreviation Scop. is used to indicate Giovanni Antonio Scopoli (1723 – 1788), an Italian physician and naturalist. The standard author abbreviation L. is used to indicate Carl Linnaeus (1707 – 1778), a Swedish botanist, physician, and zoologist, the father of modern taxonomy. See the list of Medicinal herbs in Israel, the parts used and their medical uses to treat various diseases.