Species: Wild Carrot (Daucus carota carota)
Family: Umbellifers (APIACEAE or UMBELLIFERAE)
Category: Flowering Plants
Location: NW
A. Flowering Plants
More extensive information on flowering plants can be found in a separate blog post.
B. Umbellifers (APIACEAE or UMBELLIFERAE)
These are mostly aromatic herbaceous plants with alternate feather-divided leaves that are sheathed at the base. The family contains both useful edible members and intensely poisonous ones, so correct identification before harvesting is vital.
C. Wild Carrot (Daucus carota carota)
The white flowers appear in June, the centre flower of the umbel often being red. The lower bracts are conspicuously three-forked. Gradually the umbels become hollowly concave, when they are known as Queen Anne's Lace. As she had 17 pregnancies during her reign, not one of her offspring surviving, one wonders when she found the time to adorn herself with fine lace, or indeed to run the country. This native umbellifer is not the precursor of our garden carrot. The small woody root is edible but has a strong smell and an acrid taste. Carrot tea is useful for dropsy, kidney and bladder conditions, intestinal instability (colic, dysentery, flatulence), and gout.
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Wild Carrot
Umbellifers, the Wild Carrot included, are mostly aromatic herbaceous plants with alternate feather-divided leaves.
Wild Carrot
Gradually the umbels of Wild Carrot become hollowly concave, when they are known as Queen Anne's Lace.
Wild Carrot
The white flowers of the Wild Carrot appear in June, the centre flower of the umbel often being red.
Wild Carrot
The lower bracts of the Wild Carrot are conspicuously three-forked.
Wild Carrot
Carrot tea is useful for dropsy, kidney and bladder conditions, intestinal instability (colic, dysentery, flatulence), and gout.
Wild Carrot
The small woody root of Wild Carrot is edible but has a strong smell and an acrid taste.
Wild Carrot
This native umbellifer is not the precursor of our garden carrot.
