If it’s a crime, it’s a violation I can live with. Someone fiddled with Queen’s Anne lace, whose flat-topped clusters of doily-shaped blooms turn meadows and roadsides to white in early summer. Now ...

Is it Queen Anne's Lace? Hemlock? Or something else? originally appeared on Dengarden. Queen Anne's lace (Daucus carota) is an herbaceous weed native to Europe and parts of Asia, but can also be found ...

Q: We have a number of outside gardens and every year, one green area contains hundreds of Queen Anne’s Lace-like plants that flower and stay green most of the summer, and return each year. They kind ...

Two plants commonly known as weeds that flourish with abandon seemingly wherever there is open ground deserve better status, if only for their charming white and sky-blue flowers. They are Queen ...

I’m out in Wisconsin this week visiting my son, Sam. Driving out from New England, watching the land shift from our northern deciduous forest to prairie is a real treat. Trees give way to grassland.

While traveling in the region in recent weeks, I noticed a large number of wildflowers blooming on the roadsides. Many of the ones from earlier — hawkweeds, lupines and buttercups — are into the ...

) -- the plant that caused Socrates' death -- has been mistaken for Queen Anne's lace, with fatal results. Here are the differences: Queen Anne's lace leaves smell of carrot, while poison hemlock ...

A basic tenet of wildflower watching is that “Everything about a wildflower — color, shape, fragrance, whatever — has to do with attracting and assisting pollinators so as to accomplish fertilization.