A Bow to Queen Anne’s Lace

  • Post published:08/18/2010
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Queen Anne's Lace (Daucus carota) appears on our roadsides and in the fields beginning in mid-July. I always think of it as a high summer plant. I never liked it much as a child, probably because I often saw it, or noticed it, when it was going by and curling into a cup-like shape that has given rise to another  of its names, bird's nest flower. Like many flowers it does have several names. Others are bishop's lace…