Pictures of Flowers Queen Anne?s Lace Plant Pictures and Queen Anne’s Lace Plant Kind

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on February 25, 2009

Pictures of Flowers Queen Anne?s Lace Plant Pictures and Queen Anne’s Lace Plant Kind

Queen Anne’s Lace is a flowering plant native to temperate regions of Europe, southwest Asia and northeast North America. The plant has other common names such as wild carrot, bird’s nest and bishop’s lace. It is a variable biennial plant that grows up to 1 meter tall from June to August. Tiny flowers grow in umbels to form a flat-topped cluster that looks like lace. Flowers are usually white. However, light pink and pale greenish yellow colored flowers are also found.

Like the cultivated carrots, wild carrots are suitable for consumption as food items only when it is young. Adult varieties become too woody to consume. Small amount of crushed seeds of the plants have been used as a form of natural birth control, the use being first suggested by Hippocrates around 2000 years ago. Research carried out on mice has confirmed that wild carrot disrupts the implantation process and thus reinforcing its reputation as contraceptive. Wild carrot has been introduced and naturalized in North America.