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Daucus carota - Wild Carrot

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The ancestor of the modern carrot.


DESCRIPTION:
The broad 2 - 5" cream white flower-tops are actually a compound set of many small flowers, usually with one tiny reddish-brown floret in the center. The leaves are 2 - 8" long and very finely toothed, almost fern-like. The plant grows 1 - 3' tall.

FLOWERS:
May to September

HABITAT:
Dry fallow fields, along roadsides and waste places.

OTHER INFORMATION:
This plant is very common along roadsides where the flowered heads bob with the wind of passing cars.

The flower bud opens wide to the flat-topped umbrel seen above, and then once the fruits form it closes again, as if protecting its seeds. If seen in time-elapse photography, it would probably seem to be 'flashing' pollinators.

 

 

 


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