Salad Burnet used to be grown as a fodder crop. Its leaves smell of cucumber when crushed, and may be used in salads.
It has a globular head of tiny greenish flowers without any petals. At the top of the head are the female flowers, which have two red-purple feathery stigmas. Lower down are the male flowers, which have numerous long stamens.

Female flowers with feathery stigmas		Male flowers with long stamens