Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Daucus carota
Common name
Wild carrot, Carrot
Family
Apiaceae
Where found
Urban bushland, grassy areas, roadsides, and disturbed sites. Coastal. Sporadic elsewhere.
Notes
Introduced biennial herb to 1.5 m tall. 'Seeds' with many straight spines. Stems rough, especially the primary stems, striate. Leaves with a carroty odour when rubbed, basal and alternating up the stems, to 28 cm long, rough, with a sheath at the base, compound, the lower leaves fern-like. Flowers in many-flowered clusters 4-10 cm in diameter. Individual flowers with 5 white, pink, or yellow petals, about 2.5 mm in diameter. Flowers most of the year.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Daucus~carota (accessed 9 January, 2021)
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