• Scientific Name: Sanguisorba stipulata Raf.
• Ref: Herb. Raf.:47. 1833
• Synonyms: Poterium sitchense (C.A.Mey.) S.Watson, Sanguisorba canadensis var. latifolia Hook., S. canadensis var. pilosa (H.Hara) T.Shimizu, S. latifolia (Hook.) Coville, S. riishirensis Makino, S. sitchensis C.A.Mey.
• English Common Name: Sitka burnet
• Chinese Common Name: 大白花地榆 dà báihuā∙dìyú
• Japanese Common Name: タカネトウウチソウ [高嶺唐打草] takanetōuchisō
• Family: Rosaceae
• Genus: Sanguisorba
• Distribution: Thinned forests, forest margins, mountains, ravines, marshy places; 1400–2300 m. Jilin, Liaoning [Japan, Korea, Russia; North America].
• Photo: Mt. Changbai, Jilin

Herbs perennial, 35–80 cm tall. Rootstock robust, deep, long. Stems glabrous. Radical leaves: stipules yellow-brown, membranous, glabrous; petiole angular, glabrous; leaf blade with 4–6 pairs of leaflets; leaflets petiolulate, green on both surfaces, abaxially more deeply so, elliptic or ovate-elliptic, both surfaces glabrous, base cordate to deeply so, rarely slightly so, margin coarsely acutely incised serrate, apex rounded; cauline leaves 2–4; stipules green, ovate, herbaceous, margin incised serrate; leaf blade resembling that of radical leaves but leaflets fewer higher up stem. Inflorescence erect, spicate; peduncle glabrous; bracts narrowly fasciated, nearly equaling sepals, glabrous or abaxially pilose. Sepals 4, elliptic-ovate, glabrous. Stamens 4; filaments compressed-dilated from middle to apex, broadest at apex, 2–3 × as long as sepal, nearly as broad as anther. Fruiting hypanthium pilose; sepals persistent. Fl. and fr. Jul–Sep. (Flora of China)