. An illustrated flora of the northern United States, Canada and the British possessions : from Newfoundland to the parallel of the southern boundary of Virginia and from the Atlantic Ocean westward to the 102nd meridian. Botany. Genus 3. CARROT FAMILY. 625 DAUCUS [Tourn.] L. Sp. PI 242. 1753. Biennial or annual, mostly hispid-pubescent herbs, with pinnately decompound finely divided leaves, and compound umbels of white or reddish flowers. Involucre of several foliaceous pinnately parted bracts in our species. Involucels of numerous entire or toothed bracts. Calyx-teeth obsolete. Petals obovat
. An illustrated flora of the northern United States, Canada and the British possessions : from Newfoundland to the parallel of the southern boundary of Virginia and from the Atlantic Ocean westward to the 102nd meridian. Botany. Genus 3. CARROT FAMILY. 625 DAUCUS [Tourn.] L. Sp. PI 242. 1753. Biennial or annual, mostly hispid-pubescent herbs, with pinnately decompound finely divided leaves, and compound umbels of white or reddish flowers. Involucre of several foliaceous pinnately parted bracts in our species. Involucels of numerous entire or toothed bracts. Calyx-teeth obsolete. Petals obovate, the apex inflexed, those of the outer flowers often dilated and 2-lobed. Stylopodium depressed or none. Umbels very concave in fruit. Fruit oblong, somewhat flattened dorsally. Primary ribs S, slender, bristly. Secondary ribs 4, wmged, each bearing a row of barbed prickles. Oil-tubes solitary under the secondary- ribs, and 2 on the commissural side of each carpel. [The ancient Greek name.] About 2$ species, of wide geographic distribution. Type species: Dauciis Carota L. I. Daucus Carota L. ^^â ild Carrot. Fig. 3104. Daucus Carota L. Sp. PI. 242. 1753. Bristly-hispid, usually biennial, erect, i°-3° high, the root fleshy, deep, conic. Lower and basal leaves 2-3-pinnate, the segments lanceolate, dentate, lobed or pin- natifid; upper leaves smaller, less divided; bracts of the involucre parted into linear or filiform lobes; umbels 2'-4' broad; rays numerous, crowded, Â¥-2' long, the inner ones shorter than the outer; pedicels very slender, l"- 2" long in fruit; flowers white, the central one of each umbel often purple, that of each umbel- let occasionally so, all rarely pink- ish ; fruit ii"-2" long, bristly on the winged ribs. In fields and waste places, very common nearly throughout our area, often a pernicious weed. Naturalized from Europe, and native also of Asia. The original of the cultivated carrot. Bird's- or crow's-nest. Queen Anne's-lace.
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