Note: Before considering adding this plant to the garden, check with your local extension office for its invasiveness status in your area. Although it is pretty, it has become firmly established throughout North America and is listed as a noxious weed in at least four states (IA, MN, OH, WA). Like QAL, it also has an inflorescence of small white flowers and finely dissected leaves. It is Queen Anne’s Lace, a wildflower native to Southwest Asia and many areas in Europe. Belonging to the carrot family, Queen Anne’s lace is a biennial that is also known as wild carrot. In fact, one plant can produce up to 40,000 seeds in bristled cones that stick to clothing or animal fur. Both Anne, Queen of Great Britain, and her great grandmother, Anne of Denmark, are taken to be the Queen Anne for whom the plant is named.

The Queen has a deadly look-alike cousin, Poison Hemlock, Conium maculatum. Although the plant dies after setting seed, it ensures that many seeds are left behind for the coming year. D. carota was introduced and naturalized in North America, where it is often known as Queen Anne's lace.

Although Queen Anne’s Lace is edible when young, the root quickly turns bitter and too woody to eat. Queen Anne’s lace, (Daucus carota carota), also called wild carrot, biennial subspecies of plant in the parsley family (Apiaceae) that is an ancestor of the cultivated carrot. However that’s not the more serious problem.

Queen Anne’s Lace or Wild Carrot whose scientific name is Daucus Carota, is a white flowering plant that belongs to the Apiaceae family – i.e., the same family that also produces edible carrots we so commonly use. Queen Anne's lace (Daucus carota)—also called wild carrot, bird's nest, and bishop's lace—is an herbaceous weed native to Europe and parts of Asia but can also be found in North America and Australia. American colonists boiled the taproots, sometimes in wine as a treat. It grows to 1.5 metres (5 feet) tall and has bristly, divided leaves. It is so called because the flower resembles lace, prominent in fine clothing of the day; the red flower in the center is thought to represent a blood droplet where Queen Anne pricked herself with a needle when she was making the lace. Queen Anne’s lace is a biennial plant that produces leaves and rosettes the first year, then blooms and sets seed the second year. Classified as a biennial plant, it flowers in … Queen Anne’s Lace, firmly established in a powerline cut near my home This plant is prolific. While in most places the plant is now considered an invasive weed, it can actually be an attractive addition to the home in a wildflower garden. It is a biennial herb which means that the plant produces blossoms in its second year of life and then withers away. Early Europeans cultivated Queen Anne’s lace, and the Romans ate it as a vegetable. The Queen Annes lace plant, also known as wild carrot, is a wildflower herb found in many parts of the United States, yet it was originally from Europe.