Queen Anne's Lace

Queen Anne's Lace

Known as Queen Anne’s Lace (Daucus carota) or Wild Carrot, the plant provides us with numerous benefits:

• The caterpillar of the Eastern Black Swallowtail butterfly feast from the leaves

• Other insects drink the nectar

• Other predatory insects (those who rid our gardens of unwanted insects such as aphids) are drawn to this flower.

• The taproot was once familiar to us as the carrot and is edible. Its carrot is not consistent with the carrot we know now.

• The leaves of the plant, however, are not edible and may irritate the skin.