There are three types of Queen Anne's Lace flowers.
Daucus carota is a white flowering plant native to Europe and southwest Asia and naturalized to North America.
The wild carrot is a biennial plant that grows between 30 and 60 cm (1 and 2 ft) tall and has a hairy stem.The leaves are triangular in shape.The leaves have a pinnate pattern that separates into thin segments.The flowers are small and dull white.The umbels are terminal and wide.They may be pink in bud and have a flower in the center of the umbel.The plant's lower bracts are three-forked, which distinguishes it from other white-flowered umbellifers.The umbel becomes more congested as the seeds grow.The fruits are oblong and have short styles.The fruit is small, dry and bumpy.The fruit of Daucus carota has two mericarps.The embryo has the endosperm of the fruit.The dried umbels detach from the plant.The function of the red flower is to attract insects.The carrot blooms in the summer and fall.It thrives in the sun.Roadsides and unused fields are where Daucus carota is found.[3]
Similar to the poison hemlock, D. carota has a mix of tripinnate leaves, fine hairs on its stems, and a root that smells like carrots.The hairiness of the plain green Queen Anne's lace (wild carrot) stems is different in that Hemlock has purple mottling on its stems.Both plants have been spread into North America by European settlers.
The function of the central dark florets has been the subject of many treatments of Daucus carota beginning with Darwin who speculated that they are a vestigial trait.According to researchers, the dark florets' have an adaptive function of mimicking insects to discourage herbivory or attract pollinators by indicating the presence of food.There is a correlation between the number of dark florets and the amount of inflorescences with them.Replacing the dark florets with one or more freeze-killed A. verbasci, who are similar to the florets in size and shape, found similar results to those observations of inflorescences with intact florets.There are no comments at this time.
While young, the D. carota root can be eaten, but it quickly becomes too woody to eat.The flowers can be battered and fried.The leaves and seeds can be eaten.[3]
Caution should be used when handling the D. carota since it bears a resemblance to poison hemlock and the leaves of the wild carrot may cause a skin disease.The seeds and flowers have been used as contraceptives for hundreds of years.The flowers give a creamy, off-white color if used as a dyestuff.
D. carota will change its color depending on the color of the water in which it is held.This effect can only be seen on the flower of the plant.This effect is also seen in Carnations.In primary grade school, this occurrence is a popular science demonstration.
The weed can be used as a companion plant.It attracts was to its small flowers in its native land, but where it has been introduced, it attracts very few.It succeeded in attracting butterflies and wasp when it was introduced in northeast Wisconsin.This species is documented to boost tomato plant production when kept nearby, and it can provide a microclimate of cooler, moister air for lettuce, when intercropped with it.It is considered a serious pest in pastures by the states of Iowa, Michigan, and Washington.It stays in the soil seed bank for two to five years.[23]
There are a number of factors that can cause the root of a carrot to have a bitter taste.When grown in the presence of apples, carrots have a bitterer taste.A bitter taste can be caused by stress.[ 24]
In North America, D. carota is known as Queen Anne's lace.The Queen Anne plant is named after Anne, Queen of Great Britain, and her great grandmother, Anne of Danes.The red flower in the center is thought to represent a blood droplets where Queen Anne used a needle to make the lace.
The history of Daucus carota can be traced back through historical texts and artwork.Information on carrots' history can be found in paintings from the 16th and 17th century.The roots of yellow or red were found in Turkey, North Africa, and Spain.Orange roots were grown in the Netherlands during the 17th century.[26]
The subject of a poem by William Carlos Williams is Queen Anne's Lace.