Daucus carota

Carrot, queen anne's lace, Queen Anne'S Lace

Family: Apiaceae · Type: annual · Not Native

Carrot is a naturalized annual found in California's Central Coast, Central Valley, South Coast, and eastern Sierra Nevada regions in roadsides and disturbed places at elevations below 1,650 meters. Flowering from May to September, this plant produces small white flowers in delicate, lacy umbrella-shaped clusters. Growing 1.5 to 12 decimeters tall with generally branched stems, it spreads readily in open disturbed areas. Its finely divided leaves have multiple thin segments 2 to 12 millimeters long, ranging from linear to lanceolate and sometimes featuring irregular edges. The small fruits are 3 to 4 millimeters long, typical of plants in the carrot family.

Habitat: Roadsides, disturbed places

Bloom period: May-Sep

Elevation: < 1650 m

Bioregions: CA-FP, SNE

California counties: San Francisco, Mendocino, San Diego, Los Angeles, Ventura, Inyo, Kern, San Bernardino, Lake, Santa Cruz, Santa Clara, Napa, Santa Barbara, Marin, Orange, Shasta, Humboldt, El Dorado, Calaveras, Sonoma, Placer, Sutter, Nevada, Amador, Yolo, Sacramento, Alameda, San Luis Obispo, Trinity, Siskiyou, Butte, Yuba, Del Norte, San Mateo, Kings, Glenn, Mariposa, Solano, Monterey

Data from The California Species Project — 14,000+ California species with verified data from CNPS, CDFW, USFWS, Jepson eFlora, Cal-IPC, and more.