Queen Anne's lace

a plant, Daucus carota, the wild form of the cultivated carrot, having broad umbels of white flowers. Also called wild carrot.

[1890-95]

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or wild carrot

Bristly biennial (Daucus carota) of the parsley family, native to Eurasia but now found almost worldwide.

An ancestor of the cultivated carrot, it grows 5 ft (1.5 m) tall and has divided, long, feathery leaves. Flat-topped clusters (umbels) of white or pink flowers have a single dark-purple flower in the center and resemble lace. The enlarged root is edible but very bitter, and the ribbed fruits have sharp spines.

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▪ plant

also called  Wild Carrot 

 (Daucus carota), biennial species of plant in the parsley family (Apiaceae). It is an ancestor of the cultivated carrot. It grows to 1.5 m (5 feet) tall. The bristly plant has divided leaves, umbels (flat-topped clusters) of white or pink flowers with a single dark-purple flower in the centre, an enlarged and edible but acrid root, and ribbed fruits with sharp spines. It is occasionally cultivated as an ornamental. Eurasian in origin, it is now almost cosmopolitan in range.

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