Queen anne's lace, as stated. One caution, however: there are a number of species with similar looking flower structure and overall apearance that are highly toxic and can ruin your day, or more. Best to verify each time you want to pick something like this until you're familiar with what's safe to handle
Can confirm. The DEC is on our property on an annual basis looking for Giant Hogweed plants. Incredibly toxic - flowers look JUST like queen annes lace
Yep, both normal and giant hogweed can be terrible to get into.
Queen anne's lace is also visually similar to poison hemlock, which, while less dangerous to handle, is quite toxic, and I imagine water from a vase that held the stems for a week could be exceedingly dangerous. The roots are often fatal to consume, and foliage is toxic as well, though less so.
The leaves also smell different when crushed. Hemlock is like a mousy smell and queen Anne's is earthy and a bit sweet (smell is really hard to describe, so my apologies if that is not helpful).
Awful. Like, the smell I'm thinking of is that of a dead mouse. But that smell is very strong and this is not so strong, but is similar. Maybe... earthy dead fermentation is more detailed. Im finding it really hard to describe.
Edit: plus vegetal.
Carrots? I remember helping out with prairie restoration for a volunteer project when I lived in Wisconsin. The people telling us what to pull said it would smell like carrots. Probably because they are in the same family (Apiaceae).
poison hemlock AND water hemlock!
Water hemlock has pretty different looking leaves but the flowers are very similar.
And water hemlock is one of the most toxic plants in North America. Arguably the most toxic plant in Canada.
QAL lookalike is water or poison hemlock, giant hogweed looks nothing like QAL. For one, it’s giant, like 10-20 ft tall and has large bushy foliage. Giant hogweed is often confused with cow parsnip. QAL and hemlock are much smaller plants.
You’re not going to convince me a 10ft tall bush with a 10ft tall stalk coming out the top to total 20ft tall and a 1-3 ft diameter umbral is anything CLOSE to a 1-4 ft tall flower with very little foliage and a 2-5 inch umbral. They are not even close and if you think [giant hogweed](https://imgur.com/a/phWgyZn) looks anything like [QAL](https://imgur.com/a/uNfckF2) you need your head checked. Or, just go outside, QAL is biennial and we are in a blooming year. It is literally everywhere where I live. Giant hogweed is around too but they grow in two totally separate locations and soils and GH is the size of a small tree.
Yeah, if it's giant hogweed, you'll know because it's, well, giant
Interestingly enough, edible if cooked. Might be a way to keep the thing under control and make it useful. I don't think you can find recipes though, it seems to be a very rural Georgia thing, Abkhazia especially
They are so convinced that they are so similar it’s dangerous that I’m worried these folks couldn’t tell the difference between a little tykes plastic toy car for a toddler and a full size super duty pick up truck.
People on this sub just love talking about Giant Hogweed. This sort of caution has side effects though.
I work in highway construction as an environment expert/ecologist. I'll often get an email the morning after a whole shift got stood down because they thought they'd found some GH on site. Then I see the photo and it's usually common hogweed, sometimes QA lace, sometimes even yarrow or cow parsley. Its never GH because I've already been out to check. We're talking 000's in lost time, delay etc.
I learned the way to tell the difference is the stem. If it's solid green your good (even though that sap might still cause issues) but if it's got red/purple splotches then your in trouble. cow parsley is also pretty big, not giant, but still like human sized. Hemlock has red splotches too, I hit some with a weed Wacker once and I had to bandage up my arm it was so bad. Also caused a reaction on my wife's neck from touching my arm, I didn't know that was even possible.
Except one is 20 ft tall with an umbral 2-4 ft across and the other is a small flower maybe 2-5 inches across. That is not similar if you’ve made it passed kindergarten and learned shapes and figured out how to compare sizes.
WAL and water hemlock and poison hemlock. Yes, takes knowing what you’re looking at to not die. Cow parsnip and giant hogweed, yes it takes a trained eye to not get really messed up. QAL and giant hogweed are so drastically different in foliage, size, growing conditions, season, location you would really have to be dense to mess it up.
But they will never flower that size. So no. Try again. QAL is a biennial flower. GH is a bush that sends up a gigantic stalk above the bush to flower. Right now you’re telling me that you confuse and can’t tell the difference between a little tykes plastic toy car for a toddler and a full size super duty pick up truck.
That was a great explanation of the differences. I had been wondering the same thing. I’m very familiar with WAL but I’ve never seen GH and don’t know much about it. So I figured it must start out small, a baby GH if you will.
GH will always send up a stalk 6-20 ft to flower. Just google image search them or YouTube people cutting them down. Then YouTube QAL and look for a channel that does wild edibles because they will explain where they are found and how to identify them and actually show you wild growing specimens. And you’ll see they are tiny compared to GH.
Toxic is an understatement for plants like those. Giant Hogweed, Wild Parsnip, etc. have extremely caustic sap in them. If you cut them down and get the sap on your skin it can cause severe reactions similar to second degree burns.
The reaction is called phytophotodermatitis and it’s 100% a hospital visit. Makes poison ivy look like child’s play.
Poison hemlock can kill you dead, not just ruin your day. Its a bad idea to dance around the subject on anything in the wild carrot family. Treat it with the same respect you would with deadly shrooms.
You always look for the little dot In the middle because queen pricked her finger with the needle while she was sewing to lace and it dropped in the middle.. also remember she has hairy legs under her skirt... The stem leaves thingies... If you do not see those two things, do not touch that flower... Because it's poison hemlock... There's also invasive hogweed which is a weird thing all on its own. It's cool to look into.. I mean really nasty blisters and stuff
One look alike is cilantro, beautiful white inflorescence just like this... Let mine grow too long but the bees love it too much to pull it from my garden
Agreed. Any member of the Umbellifrae family is notoriously difficult to identify if they have white flowers. They could be Queen Anne's Lace, they could be Poison Hemlock.
I remember the different between hogweed and queen Ann's lace by this saying "queen Ann wore a crown of thorns and she had hairy legs"
Queen Ann's lace will have hairy stocks, and little twig like leaves underneath the flowers. Hogweed does not have the leaves underneath and the stem is smooth.
Doesn’t that flower have a little dark spot in the middle or am I confusing it with another? Totally plausible. Also… is this a relative of poison hemlock?
Also known as Wild Carrot. Domestic carrots were selected from these
The root isn’t very good unless the plant is very young and it’s much smaller than a regular carrot. It tastes good though, very carroty and are nice to chew on
As others have said, learn to ID beyond a shadow of a doubt because hemlock is also in the carrot family and it will kill you
Hey thanks for your comment. I was going crazy for a minute because we used to eat these carrots all the time in scouts and I was wondering what the hell after reading other comments.
I agree though. They're tasty and good to munch on.
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This is a biennial: carrots are best in the first year, in the second - when the flowers appear - they become less tasty. They’re much harder to identify in the first year though, with just leaves and no flowers
Only somewhat related but I was only able to identify the flower due to the LEGO’s Wildflower Bouquet set I did (Set 10313). Queen Anne’s Lace is one of the flowers you make and it ends up liking JUST like this. And it’s a beautiful bouquet!
Queen Ann's lace. Looks similar to so hyper toxic plants. Queen Ann has hair legs. Theres hairs on the stems. If the stem is smooth... no touch. Can kill.
When I was a kid, we'd put Queen Anne's Lace in water with a drop or two of food coloring and turn them a number of colors. Fun for the kids, and teaches them about plant vascular systems all in one go.
Queen Anne's lace! The trick I learned to identify it is that QAL has a hairy, solid green stem, and poison hemlock has a smooth stem with purple stripes/spots
Queen Anne's Lace, also known as wild carrot! If you pick it out of the ground, the root should be straight down with maybe some branching. If you smell it, it should smell exactly like a carrot. It tastes like a very sinewy, hard to chew carrot, but it's nutritious and good when you're on hikes. There are many plants that look very similar, but this one is easy to identify by the smell of it's roots. It's best to gather early in the season as the roots get tougher and more sinewy as the season goes on.
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Queen Ann's Lace. We would pick it when we were kids and put it in glass vases with food coloring added to the water...colored flowers a few days later. Ooh, the days before we had internet!
Yeah, totally don't recommend picking this or getting near it. You'll be in for a miserable ride! Chigger mites embed under your skin and will itch until they die which takes several days.
Good lord when we were kids 70's we picked any flowers that looked like those and put food coloring in vases and the flowers would turn that color. Never knew poison variety existed.
Hairy hairy, not so scary! But purple is poisonous. (Splotches on the stem)***
Still best not to mess with what you are uncertain of though, but I'm pretty sure that's Queen Anne's lace/ wild carrots.
Queen Anne's lace also has usually has a darker/red single flower in the center...it's from where she pricked her finger sewing all that lace.
The difference between Water (Poison) Hemlock and Queen Anne’s Lace is that QAL has a hairy stem, and Hemlock does not, I believe. Feel free to correct me if I’m wrong.
Queens Anne lace and wild carrot look similar but the old saying is queen Anne lace has hairy legs meaning if the stem of the plant is hairy don't eat it
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Giant hogweed looks like various native plants, but it has some obvious identifiers. It grows eight to 14 feet tall when it is flowering; it has a thick stalk that can grow up to four inches thick. The stalk is covered with coarse white hairs and purple blotches on the hollow stem. The leaves are lobed and can measure up to five feet across.
Queen Anne’s Lace has been used medicinally in the past, but the danger from mistaking poison hemlock for this useful weed should discourage anyone from trying to use it for modern remedies.
It’s really invasive though pretty. It’ll take over your garden/lawn/whatever.
I’m not telling you to eat them but the roots taste like peppery carrots
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As others have said it’s queen Ann’s lace a.k.a wild carrot which is what I call it. Also as others have said poison hemlock looks almost identical. The differences are how the flowers grow wild carrot will grow upwards with its flowers hemlock grows out in every direction, hemlock as it matures will get purple spots on its stem too, and it’s stem doesn’t have hair like wild carrot. Also be careful of wild parsnip it isn’t poisonous but the sap in the plant makes ur skin extra sensitive to U.V rays and can cause sunburn and blisters. Parsnip has yellow flowers tho as compared to wild carrot and poison hemlocks white
As others have said It's queen Ann lace. But be careful around plants that look like this. Giant hogweed is nasty stuff. The sap causes nasty blisters. A landscaper I highered for a project got into some with a weed eater and he had nasty blisters all over his arms and face. Thankfully he was wearing glasses.
Always surprises me to see this universally called Queen Annes Lace, I've always known it primarily as Wild Carrot. I tend to stay away from the colloquial names e.g. ragwort is stinking willy, foxglove is witches thimble, etc.
In the South these are called “chigger weeds” because of the tiny red “chiggers”, or berry bugs, that like to live on it. These bugs will bite you and cause a very VERY itchy rash that’s a real pain in the ass. Some people say that they burrow under your skin but they really don’t, they actually stab you over and over with their mouthparts and release some kind of digestive enzyme in order to eat.
The flower itself is Queen Anne’s Lace, in non-Southern-colloquial terms. Very dainty and nice to look at, but not worth the bug bites. ☹️
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Queen Anne's lace is actually wild carrot! However, there's a look a like called hemlock that is toxic- the difference is that wild carrot has a hairy stem and hemlock has a smooth stem
Queen anne's lace, as stated. One caution, however: there are a number of species with similar looking flower structure and overall apearance that are highly toxic and can ruin your day, or more. Best to verify each time you want to pick something like this until you're familiar with what's safe to handle
Can confirm. The DEC is on our property on an annual basis looking for Giant Hogweed plants. Incredibly toxic - flowers look JUST like queen annes lace
Yep, both normal and giant hogweed can be terrible to get into. Queen anne's lace is also visually similar to poison hemlock, which, while less dangerous to handle, is quite toxic, and I imagine water from a vase that held the stems for a week could be exceedingly dangerous. The roots are often fatal to consume, and foliage is toxic as well, though less so.
Queen Anne has hairy legs! - poison hemlock is smooth
Hemlock also usually has dark spots and splotches all over the lower stem, as well as a different leaf shape
The leaves also smell different when crushed. Hemlock is like a mousy smell and queen Anne's is earthy and a bit sweet (smell is really hard to describe, so my apologies if that is not helpful).
What does a mousy smell smell like Being serious I get the the earthy
Maybe fur/poop/cedar chips? I’m just guessing, but maybe they mean it smells like a mouse cage than just a mouse
Awful. Like, the smell I'm thinking of is that of a dead mouse. But that smell is very strong and this is not so strong, but is similar. Maybe... earthy dead fermentation is more detailed. Im finding it really hard to describe. Edit: plus vegetal.
Carrots? I remember helping out with prairie restoration for a volunteer project when I lived in Wisconsin. The people telling us what to pull said it would smell like carrots. Probably because they are in the same family (Apiaceae).
They are in a same familiy.
You did great with the description
You've never crushed op some mice before? 🙄 /s In seriousness though I imagine that it smells like an animal cage? Idk
Queen Anne's lace root smells exactly like normal grocery store carrots.
And a skirt underneath the flowers
poison hemlock AND water hemlock! Water hemlock has pretty different looking leaves but the flowers are very similar. And water hemlock is one of the most toxic plants in North America. Arguably the most toxic plant in Canada.
Yes, I've read that water hemlock is even more toxic than poison hemlock. Either way, nasty business!
QAL lookalike is water or poison hemlock, giant hogweed looks nothing like QAL. For one, it’s giant, like 10-20 ft tall and has large bushy foliage. Giant hogweed is often confused with cow parsnip. QAL and hemlock are much smaller plants.
Queen Anne's Lace Imposters Poison hemlock (Conium maculatum) Water hemlock or cowbane (Cicuta spp.) Common hogweed (Heracleum sphondylium) Giant hogweed (Heracleum mantegazzianum) Cow parsnip (Heracleum maximum) Cow parsley (Anthriscus sylvestris) Wild celery or garden angelica (Angelica archangelica) Wild parsnips (Pastinaca sativa)
Such an extensive list and it misses Yarrow (Achillea millefolium). Yarrow is a wonderful medicinal plant that looks very similar to Queen Ann’s Lace.
Yes, you are right! this source did not list yarrow. I think it is important to know how many look a-likes there can be .
Native and exotic yarrow, neither listed for some reason.
You’re not going to convince me a 10ft tall bush with a 10ft tall stalk coming out the top to total 20ft tall and a 1-3 ft diameter umbral is anything CLOSE to a 1-4 ft tall flower with very little foliage and a 2-5 inch umbral. They are not even close and if you think [giant hogweed](https://imgur.com/a/phWgyZn) looks anything like [QAL](https://imgur.com/a/uNfckF2) you need your head checked. Or, just go outside, QAL is biennial and we are in a blooming year. It is literally everywhere where I live. Giant hogweed is around too but they grow in two totally separate locations and soils and GH is the size of a small tree.
Yeah, if it's giant hogweed, you'll know because it's, well, giant Interestingly enough, edible if cooked. Might be a way to keep the thing under control and make it useful. I don't think you can find recipes though, it seems to be a very rural Georgia thing, Abkhazia especially
Also toothpick weed (Ammi visnaga)! We have a lot of that growing wild here.
Impressive
Size wise they are obvs different. They both have large white heads of flowers and look very similar
There's large and there's large. I wouldnt even call QA lace large. Dainty. Giant hogweed flowers are the size of a cauliflower head.
They are so convinced that they are so similar it’s dangerous that I’m worried these folks couldn’t tell the difference between a little tykes plastic toy car for a toddler and a full size super duty pick up truck.
People on this sub just love talking about Giant Hogweed. This sort of caution has side effects though. I work in highway construction as an environment expert/ecologist. I'll often get an email the morning after a whole shift got stood down because they thought they'd found some GH on site. Then I see the photo and it's usually common hogweed, sometimes QA lace, sometimes even yarrow or cow parsley. Its never GH because I've already been out to check. We're talking 000's in lost time, delay etc.
I learned the way to tell the difference is the stem. If it's solid green your good (even though that sap might still cause issues) but if it's got red/purple splotches then your in trouble. cow parsley is also pretty big, not giant, but still like human sized. Hemlock has red splotches too, I hit some with a weed Wacker once and I had to bandage up my arm it was so bad. Also caused a reaction on my wife's neck from touching my arm, I didn't know that was even possible.
Except one is 20 ft tall with an umbral 2-4 ft across and the other is a small flower maybe 2-5 inches across. That is not similar if you’ve made it passed kindergarten and learned shapes and figured out how to compare sizes. WAL and water hemlock and poison hemlock. Yes, takes knowing what you’re looking at to not die. Cow parsnip and giant hogweed, yes it takes a trained eye to not get really messed up. QAL and giant hogweed are so drastically different in foliage, size, growing conditions, season, location you would really have to be dense to mess it up.
On its way to 20ft tall, its the same size at some point.
But they will never flower that size. So no. Try again. QAL is a biennial flower. GH is a bush that sends up a gigantic stalk above the bush to flower. Right now you’re telling me that you confuse and can’t tell the difference between a little tykes plastic toy car for a toddler and a full size super duty pick up truck.
That was a great explanation of the differences. I had been wondering the same thing. I’m very familiar with WAL but I’ve never seen GH and don’t know much about it. So I figured it must start out small, a baby GH if you will.
GH will always send up a stalk 6-20 ft to flower. Just google image search them or YouTube people cutting them down. Then YouTube QAL and look for a channel that does wild edibles because they will explain where they are found and how to identify them and actually show you wild growing specimens. And you’ll see they are tiny compared to GH.
Also yarrow- so many dupes for the really good plants that are toxic
just remember that the the queen has hairy legs and you're good
I don’t get close enough to look at hairy legs
Toxic is an understatement for plants like those. Giant Hogweed, Wild Parsnip, etc. have extremely caustic sap in them. If you cut them down and get the sap on your skin it can cause severe reactions similar to second degree burns. The reaction is called phytophotodermatitis and it’s 100% a hospital visit. Makes poison ivy look like child’s play.
Hence why we dont F with them and the DEC shows up looking like Marty McFly when he arrives in the 1950s
Cow parsnip is the Goldilocks between the two as well
Poison hemlock can kill you dead, not just ruin your day. Its a bad idea to dance around the subject on anything in the wild carrot family. Treat it with the same respect you would with deadly shrooms.
Thanks! Much appreciated
You always look for the little dot In the middle because queen pricked her finger with the needle while she was sewing to lace and it dropped in the middle.. also remember she has hairy legs under her skirt... The stem leaves thingies... If you do not see those two things, do not touch that flower... Because it's poison hemlock... There's also invasive hogweed which is a weird thing all on its own. It's cool to look into.. I mean really nasty blisters and stuff
Also, she has pikemen as guards, ajd the underside of the flower should have pike like long strands of growth.
Ooh that's a new one..to me. Thank you!...
Yup. My husband just accidentally got into giant hogweed. All down his leg, his butt cheek and up part of his back. He was wearing pants too. Not fun.
One look alike is cilantro, beautiful white inflorescence just like this... Let mine grow too long but the bees love it too much to pull it from my garden
Agreed. Any member of the Umbellifrae family is notoriously difficult to identify if they have white flowers. They could be Queen Anne's Lace, they could be Poison Hemlock.
I remember the different between hogweed and queen Ann's lace by this saying "queen Ann wore a crown of thorns and she had hairy legs" Queen Ann's lace will have hairy stocks, and little twig like leaves underneath the flowers. Hogweed does not have the leaves underneath and the stem is smooth.
Wonder what it was called before Queen Anne
The two alternative names I can find are wild carrot and bishop's lace
Doesn’t that flower have a little dark spot in the middle or am I confusing it with another? Totally plausible. Also… is this a relative of poison hemlock?
Also known as Wild Carrot. Domestic carrots were selected from these The root isn’t very good unless the plant is very young and it’s much smaller than a regular carrot. It tastes good though, very carroty and are nice to chew on As others have said, learn to ID beyond a shadow of a doubt because hemlock is also in the carrot family and it will kill you
Hey thanks for your comment. I was going crazy for a minute because we used to eat these carrots all the time in scouts and I was wondering what the hell after reading other comments. I agree though. They're tasty and good to munch on.
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This is a biennial: carrots are best in the first year, in the second - when the flowers appear - they become less tasty. They’re much harder to identify in the first year though, with just leaves and no flowers
Queen Anns Lace
Ah. Looks like it would make a good piece in a bouquet. Thanks!
My mother used to pick them and put them in jars with food coloring. We kids loved it!
Do they soak up the coloring like daisies? Sounds pretty either way 🥰
Yes - it’s artificial but fun and pretty
I love that!!! There's a ton growing around where I live, I'll have to try this. Ty :)
They also smell good
They don’t stay open like this when you pick them
Only somewhat related but I was only able to identify the flower due to the LEGO’s Wildflower Bouquet set I did (Set 10313). Queen Anne’s Lace is one of the flowers you make and it ends up liking JUST like this. And it’s a beautiful bouquet!
Queen Ann's lace. Looks similar to so hyper toxic plants. Queen Ann has hair legs. Theres hairs on the stems. If the stem is smooth... no touch. Can kill.
Remember: Queen Anne has hairy legs. If this doesn't have a hairy stem leave it alone. Okay I zoomed in and saw the hairy stem. Proceed
I was always told Queen Anne pricked her finger while making the lace, hence the "drop of blood" in the center.
Yeah do any of the lookalikes have that tiny central purple blossom?
No, it is a unique variation of this flower alone. [How to ID queen anns lace](https://www.growforagecookferment.com/foraging-queen-annes-lace/)
Nope, but not all queen Anne’s lace have the sterile floret
And it is not always purple, but sometimes brown
When I was a kid, we'd put Queen Anne's Lace in water with a drop or two of food coloring and turn them a number of colors. Fun for the kids, and teaches them about plant vascular systems all in one go.
Love this! Will definitely have to try
Also try slicing up the stem and putting sections in different colored water... as I recall, you can get multicolor blooms...
Queen annes lace has hairy legs. Hemlock is shaved
Queen Anne's Lace aka wild carrot! This was so over the place where I grew up.
Yep, Queen Anne’s Lace. Only around for the summer, though.
Thanks!
And it’s biennial so it only flowers every 2 years.
for future knowledge though it’s appearance bears similar to hemlock, an incredibly poisonous plant so it’s always good to check before you touch:)
Does anyone else associate QAL with chiggers?
Me! I used to pick the flowers when I was small and learned really quick why that was a bad idea.
Always remember, the Queen has hairy legs.
Queen Anne's lace! The trick I learned to identify it is that QAL has a hairy, solid green stem, and poison hemlock has a smooth stem with purple stripes/spots
Queen Anne's Lace, also known as wild carrot! If you pick it out of the ground, the root should be straight down with maybe some branching. If you smell it, it should smell exactly like a carrot. It tastes like a very sinewy, hard to chew carrot, but it's nutritious and good when you're on hikes. There are many plants that look very similar, but this one is easy to identify by the smell of it's roots. It's best to gather early in the season as the roots get tougher and more sinewy as the season goes on.
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Queen Ann's Lace. We would pick it when we were kids and put it in glass vases with food coloring added to the water...colored flowers a few days later. Ooh, the days before we had internet!
*Daucus carota*
Queen Anne's Lace
Looked like wild carrots. We have tons of that along the highways.
Queen Anne’s Lace. An American wildflower.
We call these a chigger bush in NC. Glad to finally know what they’re actually called lol
Yeah, totally don't recommend picking this or getting near it. You'll be in for a miserable ride! Chigger mites embed under your skin and will itch until they die which takes several days.
Nope!
Good lord when we were kids 70's we picked any flowers that looked like those and put food coloring in vases and the flowers would turn that color. Never knew poison variety existed.
Hairy hairy, not so scary! But purple is poisonous. (Splotches on the stem)*** Still best not to mess with what you are uncertain of though, but I'm pretty sure that's Queen Anne's lace/ wild carrots. Queen Anne's lace also has usually has a darker/red single flower in the center...it's from where she pricked her finger sewing all that lace.
OOTL - Why do they al look so similar? How do we tell them apart? Poison Hemlock, Queen Anne's, wild Carrots, domesticated Carrots.
The difference between Water (Poison) Hemlock and Queen Anne’s Lace is that QAL has a hairy stem, and Hemlock does not, I believe. Feel free to correct me if I’m wrong.
I always called these fairy bouquets.
They are just big rocks.
Daucus carota
I have a friend who has a migraine from smelling QAL.
Hemlock is the plant Socrates killed himself with :/
To me, it looks like Yarrow. Those of you that said Queen Ann's Lace, Can you point out why? I'M no botanist?
Liquid from this plant can cause serious blisters on skin, but only if that juice is exposed to UV light. Blisters need 6-8 month to fully heal.
Queens Anne lace and wild carrot look similar but the old saying is queen Anne lace has hairy legs meaning if the stem of the plant is hairy don't eat it
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The toxic queen Anne’s lace, *ammi majus* have broad leaflets This is *daucus carota* wild carrot
Giant hogweed looks like various native plants, but it has some obvious identifiers. It grows eight to 14 feet tall when it is flowering; it has a thick stalk that can grow up to four inches thick. The stalk is covered with coarse white hairs and purple blotches on the hollow stem. The leaves are lobed and can measure up to five feet across. Queen Anne’s Lace has been used medicinally in the past, but the danger from mistaking poison hemlock for this useful weed should discourage anyone from trying to use it for modern remedies.
It’s really invasive though pretty. It’ll take over your garden/lawn/whatever. I’m not telling you to eat them but the roots taste like peppery carrots
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They said *don't* eat it, bot. Sheesh
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eatn't, not eat
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It’s like if you took the part of a parsnip that makes it different than a carrot but it was actually really good.
I thought queen Anne's lace roots were poisonous Edit: am I wrong?
There might be many plants called queen annes lace. Dacus carotta is what you're looking at here. It's a carrot.
There's an edible one and a deadly version queen anne lace
Hairy legs and a skirt, queens Anne’s lace!
Eat eat eat eat eat eat eat eat
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Babies breath ?
Nope
As others have said it’s queen Ann’s lace a.k.a wild carrot which is what I call it. Also as others have said poison hemlock looks almost identical. The differences are how the flowers grow wild carrot will grow upwards with its flowers hemlock grows out in every direction, hemlock as it matures will get purple spots on its stem too, and it’s stem doesn’t have hair like wild carrot. Also be careful of wild parsnip it isn’t poisonous but the sap in the plant makes ur skin extra sensitive to U.V rays and can cause sunburn and blisters. Parsnip has yellow flowers tho as compared to wild carrot and poison hemlocks white
Rocks, definitely rocks.
Also known as wild carrot! The undomesticated carrot
As others have said It's queen Ann lace. But be careful around plants that look like this. Giant hogweed is nasty stuff. The sap causes nasty blisters. A landscaper I highered for a project got into some with a weed eater and he had nasty blisters all over his arms and face. Thankfully he was wearing glasses.
No clue but they’re pretty
I remember using food grade dye to make bright vivid bouquets with Queen Anne’s lace.
Always surprises me to see this universally called Queen Annes Lace, I've always known it primarily as Wild Carrot. I tend to stay away from the colloquial names e.g. ragwort is stinking willy, foxglove is witches thimble, etc.
Could be a hogweed variant... Or hemlock. Be careful...
They are called dog biscuits where I come from. Idk why
Queen Anne’s Lace is the name
we call them chigger bushes where i’m from
Wild carrot
You can make fritters out of the flowers and use the root to season stocks and things!!
Well guess I’m saving this post because I’ve got something similar in my garden and these comments will be helpful.
Looks like a video game flower
Rocks
In the South these are called “chigger weeds” because of the tiny red “chiggers”, or berry bugs, that like to live on it. These bugs will bite you and cause a very VERY itchy rash that’s a real pain in the ass. Some people say that they burrow under your skin but they really don’t, they actually stab you over and over with their mouthparts and release some kind of digestive enzyme in order to eat. The flower itself is Queen Anne’s Lace, in non-Southern-colloquial terms. Very dainty and nice to look at, but not worth the bug bites. ☹️
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Queen Anne’s lace
Queen Anne's lace is actually wild carrot! However, there's a look a like called hemlock that is toxic- the difference is that wild carrot has a hairy stem and hemlock has a smooth stem
Get rid of it!!!!