Burnet-saxifrage pimpimella saxifrage

Burnet-saxifrage is 30-100cm tall with stalked clusters of white flowers, each 2mm across, all branching from the same point at the top of a downy rough round stem. They have pairs of oval toothed leaves and upper leaves with narrow leaflets.
Salad burnet is similar but has round, purple flowers.

Churchyards are important refuges for burnet-saxifrage which like old established grassland as well as broad grass verges where it prefers well drained chalk soils. The Claylands Living Landscape area and the central area of Norfolk from south to north where there is clay soil and the area to the west where there is underlying chalk.

Burnet saxifrage flowers from July to September.

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