Purple Carrot
Daucus carota
The story
In North America and the Old World, this plant captured the human imagination, earning poetic names like Queen Anne's lace, bishop's lace, and bird's nest. Though it grows wild across temperate Europe, southwest Asia, and now Australia, it shares a direct lineage with our modern kitchen gardens: the carrots we cultivate today as a food crop are actually domesticated subspecies of this very same wild plant.
Sources: en.wikipedia.org, en.wikipedia.org
- Family
- Apiaceae
About
Daucus carota, whose common names include wild carrot, bird's nest, bishop's lace, and Queen Anne's lace (North America), is a white, flowering plant in the family Apiaceae, native to temperate regions of Europe and southwest Asia, and naturalized to North America and Australia.
Ecology
How it lives
- Propagated by
- Seed
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- Name
- Purple Carrot
- Slug
- purple-carrot
- Kingdom
- Plantae
- Family
- Apiaceae
- Genus
- Daucus
- Species
- carota
- Category
- Root
- Propagule type
- seed
- Container suitable
- No
- Indoor suitable
- No
- OSSI pledged
- No
- Hazard level
- 1
- Data completeness
- 45
Generated sections & citations
summaryinaturalist
fun_facts_kidsllm_gemini · confidence 0.90
- inaturalist (description.summary) — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daucus carota
- wikipedia (description.summary) — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daucus_carota
fun_facts_adultllm_gemini · confidence 0.90
- inaturalist (description.summary) — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daucus carota
- wikipedia (description.summary) — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daucus_carota
storyllm_gemini · confidence 0.90
- inaturalist (description.summary) — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daucus carota
- wikipedia (description.summary) — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daucus_carota