Great burnet

Great burnet is a tall perennial, producing graceful spikes of dark red-brown, egg-shaped flowers throughout the summer. Attractive mounds of dissected oval mid-green leaflets appear before the flowers in spring. A native of meadows, it is suited to prairie style and naturalised planting schemes as well as adding architectural interest in an herbaceous border. The flower heads left on in the autumn are attractive features when rimed in frost. Raised from seed in spring or autumn, or divide clumps of plants in spring or autumn.