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Daucus carota

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Daucus carota

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Also known as Bird's nest, bishop's lace, Queen Anne's lace, Devil’s Plague, wild carrot

species of plant

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Daucus carota, commonly known as wild carrot or queen Anne's lace, is a species of biennial plant in the family Apiaceae. Classified within the order Apiales and class Magnoliopsida, it belongs to the phylum Tracheophyta and kingdom Plantae. The species was described by Linnaeus and is distinct from Anthriscus sylvestris. It serves as both a vegetable and a medicinal plant.

The taxon range includes Shanghai, Beijing, China, and Xinjiang. In North America, records exist in Mexico and the United States, with specific occurrences in institutions such as ENCB-IPN, TEX, INECOL, GBH, and FCF-UANL. The species is considered invasive to British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan, and Manitoba. Its IUCN conservation status is Least Concern, as assessed in 2021.

Synthesized by Vinony from 56 facts across 10 sources: Wikidata, GBIF, iNaturalist, PubMed, Gbif Occ, IUCN Red List, Plants of the World, WoRMS, iDigBio, Vinony graph. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.

Species

Least Concern

queen Anne's lace

Daucus carota

SPECIES

  1. KingdomPlantae
  2. PhylumTracheophyta
  3. ClassMagnoliopsida
  4. OrderApiales
  5. FamilyApiaceae
Native toAfghanistan, Albania, Algeria, Austria, Azores, Baleares, Baltic States, Belarus, Belgium, Bulgaria, Canary Is., Cape Verde
Observations189,994
Observations recorded860,390

野胡萝卜（学名：Daucus carota），又稱鹤虱草，为伞形科胡萝卜属的植物。分布于欧洲南部、大洋洲、欧洲、世界广布、北美洲、南美洲、东南亚地区、西亚、北非、俄罗斯高加索、美洲大陆、地中海沿岸、地中海地区、中亚地区、亚洲以及中国大陆的四川、江西、湖北、贵州、江苏、浙江等地，生长于海拔400米至2,100米的地区，一般生长在旷野、山坡路旁或田间。 胡萝卜（D. c. subsp. sativa）就是本种最常见的人工栽培亚种。

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Museum specimens

Specimen records
12,229
With media
9,793
Family
Apiaceae
Collections
ENCB-IPN, TEX, INECOL, GBH, FCF-UANL, UNICACH
Recorded in
Mexico, United States
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Research

3,302 papers

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Encyclopedic overview

Daucus carota, whose common names include wild carrot, European wild carrot, bird's nest, bishop's lace, carrot flower, and Queen Anne's lace (North America), is a flowering plant in the family Apiaceae. It is native to temperate regions of the Old World with a number of regional subspecies, and is naturalised widely elsewhere. Carrots cultivated as a food crop are cultivars of the domesticated subspecies Daucus carota subsp. sativus.

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