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Daucus pusillus (American wild carrot; rattlesnake carrot; rattlesnake weed; southwest wild carrot)

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Wikipedia Abstract

Daucus pusillus is a species of wild carrot known by the common names American wild carrot and rattle-snake-weed. Its Latin name means "little carrot", or "tiny carrot". It is similar in appearance to other species and subspecies of wild carrot, with umbels of white or pinkish flowers.
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Attributes

Allergen Potential [1]  High
Edible [2]  May be edible. See the Plants For A Future link below for details.
Flower Type [2]  Hermaphrodite
Hazards [2]  Skin contact with the sap is said to cause photo-sensitivity and/or dermatitis in some people;
Lifespan [2]  Biennial
Pollinators [2]  Flies, Beetles
Structure [3]  Herb
Height [2]  24 inches (0.6 m)
Width [2]  12 inches (0.3 m)
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Protected Areas

Predators

Papilio polyxenes (Eastern black swallowtail)[4]
Papilio zelicaon (Anise swallowtail)[4]

External References

USDA Plant Profile

NatureServe Explorer

Citations

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♦ 1Derived from Allergy-Free Gardening OPALS™, Thomas Leo Ogren (2000)
♦ 2Plants For A Future licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License
♦ 3Kattge, J. et al. (2011b) TRY - a global database of plant traits Global Change Biology 17:2905-2935
♦ 4Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics.
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Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0