Unité de Malherbologie & Agronomie Weed Science & Agronomy INRA-Dijon

Bayer Code : dauca

Scientific name: Daucus carota L.

Synonym(s) of Sc. name: Daucus gingidium L.

Classification: Umbelliferae, Dicotyledonous

Common name: wild carrot

Synonym(s) of Common name:

Name per country: DE : Wilde Möhre ; ES : zanahoria silvestre ; FR : carotte sauvage ; IT : carota selvatica ; PT : cenoura-brava ; EN : wild carrot ; NL : peen, NL : wilde wortel ; DK : vild gulerod

Biological type: Biennial

Seed:

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Seedling:

- Cotyledons very narrowly lengthened( >10 times longer than wide).

- Leaves pinnately divided.

Adult plant:

- Height: 30-80 cm. Plant with a peculiar scent of carrot after crushing.

- Stem striate, branched and hispid.

- Leaves: lower 3-angled or oblong -ovate, 2-3-pinnate. Upper leaves pinnatifid sessile with a white, membranous sheath.

- Flowers white or pink in the centre of the umbel, petals spade-like. Umbel large, 20-40-rayed, rays slender. Involucel with linear bracts.

- Fruits : achenes elliptic, spiny. Carpophore persistent on the inflorescence after fruit fall.

- The root selected by cultivation (carrot) is an excellent vegetable - with a high content of sugars, pectines, carotenes - and a child diuretic, and good for menstruation.

- Risk of confusion with Aethusa cynapium L.

- Biological type: Biennial.

Mistake with: Aethusa cynapium

Ecological profile (click on flags):   Present       Rare       Present       Present       Present       Rare       Present       Present    

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