Queen Anne's Lace Wildflower - Daucus carota
by Carol Senske
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Queen Anne's Lace Wildflower - Daucus carota
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Carol Senske
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Description
Queen Anne's Lace is a beautiful, summer wildflower that grows in fields, meadows, and waste areas with full sun. They are often in the company of Chicory (blue cornflower) and it makes a lovely scene with the delicate, white Queen Anne's Lace and the blue of the Chicory.
This is an introduced flower in the USA, a biennial, and our carrots of today were bred from these plants. Although you can safely eat the root of the plant, the leaves are toxic.
A HUGE warning here! Water Hemlock looks very much like Queen Anne's Lace, and I can think of NO plant more poisonous than Water Hemlock!
took this picture with a Canon T4i and a Tamron 18-270 mm lens, on August 9, 2015, in Green Lane, Pensylvania, USA.
You can read more interesting info on Queen Anne's Lace here:
http://www.fcps.edu/islandcreekes/ecology/queen_annes_lace.htm
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August 21st, 2015
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Alan Lakin
Beautiful capture
Carol Senske replied:
Thank you so very much, Alan! I drive myself crazy tryng to get a picture I like of these beauties and mostly fail:>)