The carrot’s lacy cousin
From May until late August you can see the white, lacy flowers of a
plant called Queen Anne’s lace nodding at you along roads and in fields.
The plant is named after a real queen who ruled England hundreds of
years ago. People wore lots of lace on their clothes at that time,
especially kings and queens. The person who named the flower probably
thought it looked like the lace on the queen’s dresses.
Queen Anne’s lace is also called wild carrot because it is related to
the kind of carrot we eat. But Queen Anne’s lace isn’t good to eat.
