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Wild carrot

Wild carrot

Wild carrot (Daucus carota), whose common names include bird's nest, bishop's lace, carrot flower, and Queen Anne's lace, is a flowering plant in the family Apiaceae. It is native to temperate regions of the Old World with a number of regional subspecies, and is naturalized widely elsewhere. Carrots cultivated as a food crop are cultivars of the domesticated subspecies Daucus carota subsp. sativus.

 

Main Photo Credit: 
"Wild carrot (Daucus carota), Pennsylvania, USA" by Erica Kain, 2026. CC BY-NC 2.0.

Description: Wikipedia