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Wild Carrot (Daucus carota L.)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 June 2017

Larry W. Mitich*
Affiliation:
Dep. Vegetable Crops, Univ. California, Davis, CA 95616

Abstract

“Cool white, and intricate, Queen Anne's lace hedges our summer highways with spendthrift loveliness. But who of us can imagine the full beauty and wonder of this plant as we speed by?”—Green Immigrants by Claire Shaver Haughton.

Type
Intriguing World of Weeds
Copyright
Copyright © 1996 by the Weed Science Society of America 

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