Dainty Queen Annes Lace
by Karen Adams
Title
Dainty Queen Annes Lace
Artist
Karen Adams
Medium
Photograph - Fine Art Digital Prints - Photography
Description
Queen Anne's Lace is an edible weed. . . . well, I call it a wildflower!! I have always loved this plant and the story my mother told me when I was very young. Daucus Carota got its common name from a legend that tells of Queen Anne of England (1665-1714) and how she pricked her finger and a drop of blood landed on the white lace she was sewing.
It is a biennial and a member of the carrot family, also known as wild carrot. Early Europeans cultivated Queen Anne�s lace, and the Romans ate it as a vegetable. American colonists boiled the taproots, sometimes in wine as a treat. Interestingly, Queen Anne�s lace is high in sugar (second only to the beet among root vegetables) and sometimes it was used to sweeten puddings and other foods.
Queen Anne�s lace flowers have a flat-topped white umbel, sometimes with a solitary purple flower in the center (the Queen's blood!) These flowers bloom from late spring until mid-fall. Each flower cluster is made up of numerous tiny white flowers. The flower cluster start out curled up and opens to allow pollination. The cluster then rolls shut again when it goes to seed at the end of the season.
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October 31st, 2016
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