{"id":232,"date":"2008-08-22T12:31:22","date_gmt":"2008-08-22T11:31:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.yellowhousehomeschool.net\/?p=232"},"modified":"2008-08-22T12:31:22","modified_gmt":"2008-08-22T11:31:22","slug":"100-species-challenge-white-umbelliferous-things","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.yellowhousehomeschool.net\/?p=232","title":{"rendered":"100 Species Challenge: white umbelliferous things"},"content":{"rendered":"

Queen Anne’s Lace, or Wild Carrot\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

This is such a common flower round here, you would think I would know it.\u00a0 The problem is, the plant is very variable and I hadn’t assumed they were one species.\u00a0 Sometimes these flowers have a tiny purple flower in the centre, and sometimes they don’t.\u00a0 Nobody knows why.\u00a0 Sometimes they grow in groups, sometimes alone.\u00a0 It’s mostly when they grow in groups that I notice them making that characteristic bird’s nest as they go to seed.<\/p>\n

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What is bothering me is that the ones that grow in groups, that I notice ‘bird-nesting’ never seem have the little purple flower. They are typically later in the year.\u00a0 The one’s with the flower tend to grow alone.\u00a0 They started much earlier than the group ones, though they are still around.\u00a0 Anyway, I am now convinced that they are usually given the same name.<\/p>\n

Queen Anne’s Lace is naturalised in North America, and I think it sometimes considered a pest.\u00a0 You can eat the roots, if you want – that might get rid of it!<\/p>\n

Angelica Sylvestris<\/strong><\/p>\n

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A few specimens of this flower in a particular spot each year, down by favourite stream.\u00a0 I think it can generally be found along the streams around here, but it is not extremely common.\u00a0 It is a beautiful mass of butterflies and other pollinators. And it grows taller than me, about 2m.<\/p>\n

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I do not know if Angelica Sylvestris grows outside of Europe, but I did discover that there is a very poisonous plant called Water Hellebore that looks a bit like this Angelica, and grows in North America.\u00a0 Apparently, you should avoid even touching it.<\/p>\n

This Wild Angelica is supposed to be edible, but sadly, it is not the garden Angelica whose stems are candied for cakes and things.\u00a0 I wouldn’t harvest this anyway.\u00a0 I don’t see enough of them around.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Queen Anne’s Lace, or Wild Carrot\u00a0 This is such a common flower round here, you would think I would know it.\u00a0 The problem is, the plant is very variable and I hadn’t assumed they were one species.\u00a0 Sometimes these flowers have a tiny purple flower in the centre, and sometimes they don’t.\u00a0 Nobody knows why.\u00a0 … Continue reading 100 Species Challenge: white umbelliferous things<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[42],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yellowhousehomeschool.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yellowhousehomeschool.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yellowhousehomeschool.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yellowhousehomeschool.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yellowhousehomeschool.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=232"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.yellowhousehomeschool.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yellowhousehomeschool.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yellowhousehomeschool.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yellowhousehomeschool.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}