Salad Burnet is a strange looking hairless plant that grows to 15-40cm tall. The stems terminate in globular heads of tiny greensih flowers. It has male only flowers on the lower part of the head with may long stamens. These flower first whilst the female and bisexual flowers higher up on the … [Read more]flower head open later and have purple feathery stigmas. This is a device often used by wind polinating plants to avoid self-fertilization. The rounded deeply toothed leaflets smell of cucumber when crushed. The plants, as it name suggests can be eaten in salads. It is common on chalk grasslands and flowers May - August. Picture taken at Bromham Nature Reserve, May 27th 2012.
Added:
3rd Jun 2012 by Diane Earl
Subjects:
Biology, Environmental Science
Key Stages:
Foundation, Key Stage 1, Key Stage 2, Key Stage 3, Key Stage 4, Key Stage 4+
Geocode: Bromham Nature Reserve
Date of artefact: 27/5/12
Keywords:
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