Wild Carrot

Wild Carrot, Queen Anne's Lace

Daucus carota L.

Apiaceae (Carrot Family)

▲ ▼ seedlings

▲ ▼ young 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

▲ ▼ 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)

Eurasian native herbaceous biennial in the Carrot Family (Apiaceae or Umbelliferae)
Whole plant has a carrot-like odor
First year produces rosette of feathery leaves, not as finely divided nor as large as poison hemlock leaves in fall of first year
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
Dried flower umbels fold up into funnel shape
Leaves and roots are toxic (produce neurotoxins) if consumed

(Updated January 15, 2019)