Wild Carrot

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First-year vegetative plants.

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Leaves and stems.  Key characteristics: leaves are compound and highly disected.   Stems are hollow and hairy.

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Flowers.  Key characteristics: white and produced in compound umbels.

  

Seed.  Seed are oval-shaped with 4 ridges tipped with spines.  Seed length is approximately 3.0 mm.

Life cycle: biennial.