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Queen Anne's Lace (wild carrot)


> Is this the plant I saw growing wild in Crete? (Nick?)

I would think yes, almost certainly so, if it was a largeish white umbel 
with white flowers and a single dark purple blob in the center. Daucus 
carota is common in Crete, along roadsides, etc.

Incidentally, in England the name Queen Anne's Lace is applied to another 
plant in the same family: Anthriscus sylvestris, also known as cow 
parsley or, more locally (at least where I grew up) 'keck'. Vernacular 
plant names can be highly regional in the UK, so the thing one of my geat 
aunts (now well into her 80s) called Queen Anne's lace might not the same 
species known under that name elsewhere in the UK.

I must take a closer look at the plant a St. Louisan friend recently 
pointed out by one of the highways here as Queen Anne's lace and see if it 
is wild carrot or something else!

Nick.

Nick Turland
Flora of China Project, Missouri Botanical Garden, 
P.O. Box 299, St. Louis, MO 63166-0299, U.S.A.
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