For starters, poison hemlock is typically very tall. Poison hemlock is known to get anywhere from 6 to 10 feet tall. Queen Anne's Lace, also known as wild carrot, is usually 1 to 4 feet tall at most.

While traveling in the region in recent weeks, I noticed a large number of wildflowers blooming on the roadsides. Many of the ones from earlier — hawkweeds, lupines and buttercups — are into the ...

Queen Anne’s lace herb earned its common name from a legend that tells of Queen Anne of England (1665-1714) pricking her finger and a drop of blood landing on white lace she was sewing. It is said ...

I have loved the look and fragrance of Queen Anne's lace flowers since I was no taller than this weedy, wild carrot. But the plant is more interesting than I then gave it credit for.

Be persistent. I have been pulling Queen Anne’s lace out of my lawn, gravel driveway, and raised beds for more than 20 years now. I have less and less of it. But some always seems to come back.

Queen Anne’s Lace was not slandered as noxious by farmers, however. It was labeled the term legally in Iowa Code, chapter 317, for limiting agriculture production and causing economic harm.

Daucus carota is also known as wild carrot, or Queen Anne's lace. True to the latter name, its flowerheads, made up of tiny white blooms (although some varieties are pink or dark purple), have an ...

I haven't seen Queen Anne's lace very often in this area, but it can be grown here. As a biennial, it grows foliage and roots the first year and produces the flower the second year.

Like carrots, Queen Anne’s lace is a biennial. The first year, it just has a low cluster of leaves, sending up the flower during its second summer. Then it dies. If you want to eat the root, try ...

Bit No. 3: And then there’s Finland, which grows 28 percent of the world’s Caraway, yet another Queen Anne’s Lace doppelgänger. So there you go.

The "flower" of the Queen Anne's lace is in fact a large collection of very small flowers arranged in an umbel. When it comes to such flower arrangements, there are really only three choices.