Wild Carrot (Daucus carota)

Like a compact form of ammi, this delicate umbel flowers solidly all summer and its seed heads are nearly as good as the lacey flowers.

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Type: Biennial or Short-lived Perennial
Position: In Grass
Soil: Broad Tolerance
Flowers: June - September
Height: 90cm (36in)
Group/Species: carota
Common name: Wild Carrot
Moisture: Moist but Well-drained
Aspect: Full Sun
Spread: 45cm (18in)
Cultivation: Sow thinly under cover or direct where it is to flower from autumn to spring. Seed dormancy is broken by a period of exposure to cold so best sown before the weather warms up. Thin seedlings to 30cm apart.

Like a compact form of ammi, this delicate umbel flowers solidly all summer and its seed heads are nearly as good as the lacey flowers.

More of us should grow this garden-worthy wild flower in our borders as well as plant as plugs into grass. It makes a good cut flower.

Deadhead regularly to prolong flowering and pick for the vase.