The white plant, whose flower looks abut like Cow Parsley, which here grows on every roadside verge, is part of a wilded field. The 2nd photo was to show the leaf, but there was quite a wind blowing and photo is blurred. Location: Edenbridge, Kent, England Any ID helpful. Thank you.
Aka Queen Anne's Lace; blooming everywhere in my area right now. It may be a native plant where you live but is considered invasive here. "It was introduced from Europe as a medicinal herb. This biennial plant persists in clay soils and can be a threat to recovering grasslands. After going to seed the dried flower takes on a “birds’ nest” like appearance and can move like a tumble weed to help spread its seeds."
Difficult to make out the leaves, but they don't look finely divided enough for Wild Carrot. Can you revisit to get some sharper pics?
Daucus carota is native in Britain; however, its correct English name is Wild Carrot. "Queen Anne's Lace" is an unwelcome invasive American renaming, and is a damaging threat to our native culture and language.
Daucus carota ....common names wild carrot, European wild carrot, bird's nest, bishop's lace, and Queen Anne's lace. Just trimmed your pic Richard. It very clearly shows the red dot often found in the centre of the flowers. Queen Anne's lace..... Kew use this common name Quote....."One of the common names of the wild carrot, Queen Anne’s Lace, is in honour of Anne, Queen of Great Britain (1665 — 1714)" See link for clear pic. https://www.kew.org/plants/wild-carrot
PS. Super clear pics here. https://wildflowerfinder.org.uk/Flowers/C/Carrot(Wild)/Carrot(Wild).htm Quote from above.. "In the very centre of the umbel of flowers lies a single but small pink or red flower (not always present)"
Yes, really good pics. I was interested to see there, regarding the red flower, that it's not a unique identifier for this species: and Also the photo of the hairy ribbed ovary under each flower was surprising.
Postings discussing the common name(s) and use of common names in Britain have been moved to the existing thread Common names - need there be standards? | UBC Botanical Garden Forums I see that Likes didn't get copied over. And maybe one was hidden that is showing now? I'm sorry - I hope I haven't messed up anything.
