Wild Carrot / Queen Anne's Lace - How to ID, Uses, Harvest, and More!

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Wild Carrot, Queen Anne's Lace, Bird's Nest - Daucus carota
Queen Anne's lace AKA wild carrot is an introduce wild edible and medicinal plant that can be found across North America. It's a showy medicinal flower that you can often find along roadsides and fields. All parts of the edible plant are in fact edible including the leaves, stem, roots, flowers, and seeds. Foraging for this plant also might be something of interest because it's a wild medicinal plant as well.
An interesting use for Queen Anne's lace / wild carrot is the seeds have been used as a natural contraceptive. The seeds have been used as a kind of morning after pill to prevent conception.
Wild carrot does have some similar looking plants thar are poisonous, so please be sure to make a positive identification before using Queen Anne's lace.
Please consume wild plants at your own risk! Consult multiple reliable sources before consuming any wild plants! This video is for information and entertainment only!
References
Jones, Brenda. Medicinal Herbs of Eastern Canada: a pictorial manual. Nimbus Publishing Limited. 2020.
MacKinnon, A. Edible and Medicinal Plants of Canada. Lone Pine Media Productions (BC) Ltd. 2014.

[@GnomeInPlaid]

Another way to remember how to identify wild carrot is the phrase "the Queen has hairy legs". The poisonous plants that can be confused with wild carrot do not have the fine hairs on the stems. Good episode. Well done.

[@OkanaganGardenerandForager]

Good tip! Thank you!

[@ntcssj]

Unfortunately Queen Anne's Lace's hybridized with a bunch carrots in our garden and I found out I'm allergic to them, but not regular carrots. So time to cut the flowers down for bouquets before the seeds keep spreading year after year like they already have in some areas of the garden. :P

[@OkanaganGardenerandForager]

Oh no! At least the flowers look nice. Good luck!

[@annschultz6262]

Thanks for your comments. I noticed my flowers are completely white//no single red or any other color flower in the center. Thanks again. Love your videos!

[@OkanaganGardenerandForager]

You're welcome! Thank you, too!

[@TraciesLocalLearnings]

Awesomeness, I have been sceptical about this plant. Thank you so much for explaining all the identifying features ❤🌱🙏

[@OkanaganGardenerandForager]

You're welcome! Thank you, too! I hope it helps!

[@VidadeDios11]

Wonderful show

[@OkanaganGardenerandForager]

Thank you!

[@tracyphoenix8]

Good video, but would have liked to see how the seeds look like and how it looks on the plant to collect them for planting.

[@Jean-iv2mi]

Such a beautiful flower. The carrot like leaves are kind of fractal like.

[@guaporeturns9472]

Looks like yarrow

[@OkanaganGardenerandForager]

Yes, there's definitely some similarities. Thanks!

[@LH-zw7dg]

Great video! I really liked the close up pictures in video you did! Love the name Queen Anne’s Lace and the flower!

[@OkanaganGardenerandForager]

Thank you! I hope the pictures were helpful.

[@masamunesword]

The family Apiaceae is wild. Carrots, parsley, celery, dill and fennel are all in it, but also some of the most toxic plants like poison hemlock and giant hogweed.

[@OkanaganGardenerandForager]

It really is. Thanks!

[@Wisconsin.pikachu]

Just found some wild carrots and wild hops 😊 been watching videos on what to do with them

[@OkanaganGardenerandForager]

Nice! Good luck and have fun!

[@grahambourke8687]

I had no idea there were wild carrots. Thanks for educating me.

[@OkanaganGardenerandForager]

You're welcome! Thanks for watching and commenting!

[@phasein5413]

Very nice. Thanks mate! In thanks I'll add this: Carrots in stores are thought to be orange due to a Dutch "Prince of the house of Orange" being honored for valiant service for his country (holland, I think) with an orange carrot bred by his countrymen. It was sweeter, more tender, and became the standard everyone wanted. Also, the sap has furanocoumarins, which react with sun and that causes blisters "bartenders blisters", as lime (and grapefruit) also has that compound in it, which bartenders get on their hands often. Stay solid!

[@OkanaganGardenerandForager]

Lots of good info there! Thank you!

[@annschultz6262]

A few years ago i grew carrots. These flowers are all over the yard. Are they still carrots?

[@OkanaganGardenerandForager]

If you leave carrots in the ground over winter, the next year they will come back and flower and look pretty much exactly the same. I would guess it's probably just the carrots you planted living out their full life cycle.

[@jojow8416]

Thank you for this informative video. Our property is surrounded by this wonderful plant and I often harvest it for its kidney stone benefits.

[@OkanaganGardenerandForager]

You're welcome! Thank you, too!

[@senatorjosephmccarthy2720]

Cranberry and the juice works great too, and not so dangerous.

[@OkanaganGardenerandForager]

@senatorjosephmccarthy2720 good tip for cranberry!

[@bobbofly]

Tricky part is hemlock is also in the carrot family. Just be careful.

[@lindaburke9828]

I’m in Mossyrock, WA and I have fields of false carrots. I really like your descriptions, but I may also have some fakers. Can you tell the difference in these pictures

[@frankblangeard8865]

7:14 The plant can be used to prevent conception and it can be used to promote fertility in women.

[@OkanaganGardenerandForager]

Thank you for that!

[@Dlcjr08]

This is a great video on identifying the second year plant. I've always been leary about making a possitive id myself. But you broke it down so well I feel way more confident now. Thank you. But what about the first year plants? Do they have the little hairs also? Or is it possible to mistake them for some of the poisonous look alikes?

[@OkanaganGardenerandForager]

Thank you! A lot of the same ID points will apply like smell, shape of the leaves, and little hairs on them. For me, the smell is a key identifier, and the fact that they look just like a carrot that's grown in a garden. I hope that helps.

[@Dlcjr08]

@@OkanaganGardenerandForager thanks again I'm pretty sure we have some growning on our property here in the Minnesota Arrowhead. 🤞

[@OkanaganGardenerandForager]

@@Dlcjr08 I had a hard time with this one, too. I've actually been looking at them for a few years in all different growth stages to feel more confident. I think it's sometimes not easy to be sure!

[@THEScottCampbell]

A lot of this is growing here in Detroit along Eight Mike Road, the busiest east=west highway in Detroit, serving as the border between Wayne and Macomb counties!

[@OkanaganGardenerandForager]

I'm always interested to see the places different plants can survive. Thanks!

[@kurtarron6482]

That was awesome! I never knew that! I never knew the poisonous ones either. Ive seen some across the street quite tall and largeer flowers. Wonder what they are now. Thanks. I love carrots

[@OkanaganGardenerandForager]

Thank you! That's very nice of you to say!

[@emmalee478]

Loved learning why it got its name. Also, pretty funny watching you try to eat that second year root!

[@OkanaganGardenerandForager]

Haha! It was a bit of a struggle! Thanks!

[@drrahilakurdi5943]

Very nice information ❤❤ I am from Pakistan ❤

[@OkanaganGardenerandForager]

Thank you! Hello from the other side of the world!