It is a biennial plant.
Wild carrot is used for urinary tract problems including kidney stones, bladder problems, water retention, and excess uric acid in the urine; and also for gout, a painful joint problem caused by too much uric acid. The seed oil is used for severe diarrhea (dysentery), indigestion, and intestinal gas. Daucus carota, whose common names include wild carrot, bird's nest, bishop's lace, and Queen Anne's lace (North America), is a flowering plant in the family Apiaceae, native to temperate regions of Europe and southwest Asia, and naturalized to North America and Australia. Wild carrot is a diuretic, stimulant and carminative. The wild carrot seeds are used to treat digestive problems including indigestion, colic, diarrhoea, flatulence and dysentery. The dried leaves are used to treat bladder and kidney problems. Wild carrot is a biennial plant. During the first year only leaves are formed. The second year the plant forms a single 1m long erect stem with small white flowers. The wild carrot root is small, tap shaped. WILD CARROT Overview Information. Wild carrot is a plant. The parts that grow above the ground and an oil made from the seeds are used to make medicine. Be careful not to confuse wild carrot (which has a white tap root that shouldn’t be eaten) with the common carrot (which has the familiar orange tap root we do eat). Wild carrot (Daucus carota) belongs to the Parsley family, named Umbelliferae because of the flat, umbrella-shaped flower heads common to all members. Wild carrot is a biennial, and its seeds germinate in spring. 1. Seedlings have long, thin cotyledons. Wild carrot is a biennial, and its seeds germinate in spring. The first year of growth produces a low rosette of delicate leaves. Leaves are dark green and grow 2½ to 7 inches (6 to 18 cm) long and 1¾ to 4½ (4 to 11 cm) wide. They are deeply divided into long thin segments much like the foliage of garden carrots. I’ve never understood the confusion over identifying the Wild Carrot also called Queen Anne’s Lace: It has a flat white blossom with a red spot in the middle, hairy stems and stalk, and the white root that smells like carrot.
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