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Wild Carrot, Queen Anne's Lace
Daucus carota L.
Apiaceae (Carrot Family)
▲▼seedlings
▲▼ young plants
▲▼ first year rosette plants
▲▼ first year rosette plants
▲▼ first year rosette plants (note fuzzy stems, leaves on plant below)
▲ leaf
▲ mature, flowering plants
▲ inflorescence getting ready to bloom
▲▼ inflorescence showing dark red flower in center
▲▼ inflorescence showing dark red flower in center
▲▼ senescing inflorescence
▲ senescing inflorescence showing fruit with burs on edges
Daucus carota
L.; Wild Carrot, Queen Anne’s Lace:
(Bayer Code:
DAUCA; US Code DACA6)
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Eurasian native herbaceous
biennial in the Carrot Family (Apiaceae
or
Umbelliferae)
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Whole plant has a carrot-like odor
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First year produces
rosette of feathery leaves, not as finely divided nor as large as
poison hemlock leaves in fall of first year
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Second year produces
rough, ridged, hairy flower stalk with one or more tightly clustered umbels of
flowers; often have one or more tiny
dark red
flowers in center of umbel
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Dried flower umbels fold up into funnel shape
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Leaves
and roots are toxic (produce neurotoxins) if consumed