QUEEN ANNE'S LACE
			Daucus carota - Wild Carrot
	HOME Botanical Terms Lists: Master Plant List Flowering Times List Flowers by Color/Type Endangered Species List Habitat List Use the 'back' button on your browser to return, if necessary.		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.       OTHER OBSERVATIONS: My observations about this plant can be found at: OFFSITE INFORMATION: If you're interested