AMERICAN GREAT BURNET 



is woody, hence the plant technically is a shrub. 

 The barren stems are from two to three inches high, 

 the fertile and flowering ones three to six. 



The little white flower is of the strawberry type, 

 but like all the Potentillas its fruit is a cluster of hard 

 akenes instead of the strawberry. The plant may be 

 easily recognized by its three-parted shining leaves. 



AMERICAN GREAT BURNET 



Poterium Canadense. Sanguisorha Canadensis 



Sanguisorha, Latin, blood-stanching, from its supposed 

 properties. 



Perennial. Native. A tall, showy plant bearing long, 

 stalked spikes of feathery white flowers; found in swamps 

 and wet meadows, especially near the sea. Newfound- 

 land to Georgia and west to Michigan. July-September. 



Stem. — Two to six feet high, smooth or slightly hairy, 

 erect, branching. 



Leaves. — Alternate, odd-pinnate, with leafy stipules. 

 Basal leaves long-petioled; leaflets seven to fifteen, one 

 to three inches long, ovate, oblong or oval, serrate, stalked. 



Flowers. — White, perfect, in dense terminal spikes. 



Calyx. — Tubular, top-shaped, constricted at the throat, 

 persistent, four-lobed; the lobes petaloid and deciduous. 



Corolla. — Wanting. 



Stamens. — Four, inserted on the throat of the calyx; 

 filaments threadlike, exserted; anthers short. 



Pistil. — Ovary one, style threadlike. 



Fruit. — Akene enclosed in a four-angled calyx. 



The conspicuous spires of Great Burnet appear in 

 swamps and wet meadows, especially near the Atlantic 

 coast. 



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