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Daucus carota
gravel, dry fields, road sides.
These were very very numerous in this field behind the hotel, and along curbs, and road in this entire area. In the field behind the hotel, it is curious to note, most of the plants had a convergent lady beetle inside it's closed seed head as in pic 3.
Spotted on Aug 3, 2012
Submitted on Aug 7, 2012
5 Comments
I'll do some research on that one, Livian! :) Socrates had a great life, though I may have to take a rain check on sharing a demise similar to his!
OK, just be careful because Poison Hemlock looks very similar (including the root {roots of these 2 look more alike than either looks to a store carrot}) You don't want to end up like Socrates!
Interesting! Maybe I’ll have a harvest later in the year. :)
J, yes, apparently so: read more here:
http://www.fcps.edu/islandcreekes/ecolog...
" the carrots that we eat today were once cultivated from this plant" "People can eat the large taproot, which of course, is a carrot. The leaves of the plant, though, are toxic, and may irritate the skin."
Beautiful, Livian! Are the wild carrots edible?