Habit: Annual, biennial, taprooted, hairy.
Stem: decumbent or erect, generally +- branched.
Leaf: blade oblong, pinnately dissected, segments linear to lanceolate.
Inflorescence: umbels compound; bracts, bractlets generally present; bracts conspicuous, generally pinnately lobed; bractlets entire to toothed; rays generally many, spreading, in fruit incurved to form nest-like umbel.
Flower: outer occasionally +- bilateral; calyx lobes 0 or evident; petals wide, white, margins occasionally +- red, tips narrowed, unequally 2-lobed.
Fruit: oblong to ovate, compressed front-to-back; ribs 10, 1° thread-like, bristly, 2° winged, prickly; oil tubes 1 beneath each 2° rib; fruit axis entire or notched at tip.
Species In Genus: +- 20 species: America, Eurasia, northern Africa, Australia.
Etymology: (Greek: carrot)
Jepson eFlora Author: Lincoln Constance & Margriet Wetherwax
Reference: [Sáenz Laín 1980 Anales Jard Bot Madrid 37:481--533]
Index of California Plant Names (ICPN; linked via the Jepson Online Interchange)Key to Daucus
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