Sanguisorba minor
Sanguisorba minor
Ssp balearica: Kelekayağı; Ssp lasiocarpa: Karagöndürme; Ssp minor: Çayırdüğmesi
Stems erect, 10-75 cm, glabrous, puberulous or sparsely pilose, sparingly branched. Lower leaves in rosettes at the base of the stems, ± oblong, pinnate with 11-17 orbicular to oblong to ovate, deeply serrate leaflets, usually pilose or sericeous-pilose beneath. Upper leaves few, similar to rosette leaves but with fewer, relatively narrower leaflets. Heads ± globose. Sepals green with whitish or pinkish margins, ovate-oblong, 2-3 mm. Hypanthium forming a hard, nutlike 4-angled fruit with hairy, wrinkled or verrucose faces. A very variable species which Nordborg divides into 6 subspecies, definable on fruit characters, which are not correlated with any other vegetative or floral features. Of the 6 subspecies,4 occur in Turkey.
1. Fruit puberulous, obovoid or ovoid, rounded to the apex, not compressed, the 4 wings obscure, the surface wrinkled or almost smooth, 2-3 x 1-1,5 mm... subsp. lasiocarpa
1. Fruit glabrous, rounded or ± acute at the apex, compressed or not, wings often conspicuous, surface usually conspicuously wrinkled or verrucose, 2,5-4 x 1-3 mm
2. Angles not prominently winged, rather flattened; fruit fusiform, somewhat compressed, surface wrinkled, 3-3,7 x 1-1,5 mm... subsp. minor
2. Angles prominently winged, or if not, fruit markedly verrucose with conspicuous projections, not flattened, ovoid to obovoid
3. Surface of fruit thrown into coarse folds and wrinkles; fruit 3-4 x 1,6-2,5 mm subsp. muricata
3. Surface of fruit drawn up into prominent projections; fruit 3,5-4,5 x2-3 mm subsp. magnolii =S.verrucosa
