Scientific name: Daucus carota L.
Common name: Wild Carrot
Description
Habit: Erect to procumbent, hairy biennial, to 75 cm high.
Stems: Solid, grooved with widely spreading branches.
Leaves: Leaves 2-3-pinnate with fine lobed leaflets.
Flowers: White or pinkish white in terminal umbels; umbels flat-topped to domed when in flower and later concave; rays 20-40, bracts numerous and pinnatifid, bracteoles numerous and entire; petals 5, free; stamens 5; ovary inferior and 2-celled.
Fruits: A schizocarp, 2-3 mm, ovoid, covered with spines.
Habitat: Pastures, meadows, roadsides and sand-dunes.
Distribution: Frequent on limestone and near the coast, rare elsewhere.
Native status: Native
Of conservation interest: No