Wild Carrot or Queen Anne's Lace facts: Although the species name for this ferny plant with the
elegant, white lacy flowers is "Daucus carota", the same one used for cultivated carrots it is not the
same plant. As a member of the carrot family it has a long taproot and lacy leaves. Dig up and crush a
Wild Carrot root and you will find that it smells just like a carrot. It is yellowish in colour,
spindle-shaped, slender, firm and woody; a pernicious weed in some areas. It is edible when young but
the root (especially the centre) soon gets tough and woody due to the high content of xylem tissue.
The domestic carrot is a genetic variant that lacks most of this tissue. ~ World Carrot Museum

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