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  • COMMON NAME: wild carrot
  • ARABIC: جزر
  • BOTANICAL NAME: Daucus carota L.
  • SYNONYMS: Caucalis carota (L.) Crantz
  • FAMILY: APIACEAE
  • KIND: Introduced
  • EMIRATE: Abu-Dhabi , Sharjah
  • CATEGORIES: Fruits (F)
  • GROWTH FORMS: Herbs
  • HABITATS: Sandy
  • TYPES: Biennial
Flora of the United Arab Emirates V1 & 2, Fawzi M.Karim, Nael M.Fawzi; reviewed by Fatima Al-Ansary. Al-Ain: United Arab Emirates University, 2007. https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:841063-1#synonyms
Edible fruit.
Erect, biennial herb, 15-80 cm high. Root a thick tap-root. Stems usually branched, with white hairs or glabrous. Leaves 2-3 pinnate, the segments very variably dentate or pinnatifid, hispid or glabrous. Peduncles 15-30 cm long, hispid. Rays 8-10 numerous. Bracts 1-2-pinnatisect. Calyx teeth minute. Petals white, pinkish, or yellowish; the outer radiate. Ovary hispid; styles short. Fruit ovoid, 2-4 mm long; primary ridges not prominent, slightly bristly, secondary ridges, winged, spiny. Western 1989 mention Daucus durieua Lange, but no material is present at our herbarium, that found in Masafi, and the authors have not seen or collected this species. Flowering from April to September.
Plantations and roadsides.
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