Please help ID this plant

[TurnStone]

It is very bright green, compound leaves with frilly edges on the leaflets, globular ?seed heads.

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Pic with hand for scale

Is it a mimosa?

Do the leaves fold inwards when you touch them?

Thanks but the leaflets are much more oval than your image, it's not touch-sensitive.

Growing vigorously outside in a coastal area but not close to the shore.

Could it be salad burnet maybe ??

@TurnStone

Growing vigorously outside in a coastal area but not close to the shore.

Could it be salad burnet maybe ??

Yes, it’s definitely a burnet, Sanguisorba. In that location I would expect Greater burnet rather than Salad, which is a plant of short limestone grassland, but the flowerheads are round rather than the more oval shape of Greater, so perhaps you are right. Look also at Fodder burnet, which is widespread in the lowlands - I’m not familiar with that.

There’s a lot of non uk species of Sanguisorba grown as garden plants, but the ones I’ve seen have all had elongated heads.

Yes, they’re the seed heads, but as it’s an inflorescence it looks much the same in flower, just coloured. I have Greater burnet in my lawn where we nickname it “strawberries on sticks”

MereDintofPandiculation thanks once again for your learned contribution, I tasted a leaf and it tastes vaguely of cucumber , would go nicely in a Pimm's ( if I liked Pimm's )

P S we are on limestone ! near a former limestone quarry...

In that case, it is indeed salad burnet, looking more vigorous than I'm used to because presumably it's not being grazed.

Yes it looks exactly the same as my salad burnet. Tasty!