Queen Anne's Lace

[Speck Tater]

I've been trying to look at common plants and weeds from different angles and I'm making a lot of surprising discoveries. There are two kinds of flower on Queen Anne's Lace. One is the familiar flat white flower made up of many tiny flowers, and the other I always assumed was a "closed up" version of the same flower, but it's not. I'ts fundamentally different in structure. Here is the other Queen Anne's Lace flower.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

1. This is a spectacular picture...

I know it isn't, but this plant nearly looks carniverous...

It reminds me of the Venus Flytrap.

Fascinating!

[Speck Tater]

2. Thank you. It turns out I was wrong.

It's not a different kind of flower. It's what the Queen Anne's flower does when it turns to seed. It folds in on itself and takes on a "bird's nest" shape. This is the flower in its seed phase.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

3. How very cool!

Thanks for the explanation...

[alfredo]

7. Pull up the plant and smell the root. You will recognize the smell.

[Speck Tater]

9. Yes. It's also called "Wild Carrot". nt

[alfredo]

10. Loved the smell, but the sassafras root smelled the best of all.

Look for sassafras. If you run across a tree with three different leaves, chances are, it is a sassafras.

[Speck Tater]

11. I can look for sassafras, but...

I'm NEVER going to find it. It doesn't occur here in the Pacific Northwest.

[alfredo]

12. That's too bad. But living in the northwest makes up

For not having access to that tree.

[Speck Tater]

13. True. It's a beautiful place.

And once or twice a year the sun even pokes out from behind the clouds!

[alfredo]

14. It's not a sun tan, it's rust.

[area51]

4. Great pic. n/t

[Solly Mack]

5. Nice shot!

I really like that.

[alfredo]

6. Very good image. Wait for them to dry out completely and photograph them then.

[Speck Tater]

8. Good idea. I still have the same seed head. I'll check it periodically. nt

[Blue_In_AK]

15. Nice!

This photo is beautiful. We don't get those up here, but we have cow parsnips, which have similar flowers but different seed pods.