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Taxon: Daucus carota L.

Genus: Daucus section: Daucus
Family: Apiaceae (alt. Umbelliferae).
Nomen number: 300172
Place of publication: Sp. pl. 1:242. 1753
Typification: View record from Linnaean Plant Name Typification Project of the Natural History Museum of London.
Name verified on: 19-Jul-2007 by ARS Systematic Botanists. Last updated: 19-Jul-2007
Species priority site is: North Central Regional PI Station (NC7).
Accessions: 963 in National Plant Germplasm System.
  • all available ) NPGS accessions ) or .
  • all available ) NPGS accessions by country.


SPECIES RESTRICTED BECAUSE STATE NOXIOUS WEED
A declared aquatic or terrestrial noxious weed and/or noxious-weed seed in these U.S. states (see state noxious weed lists), with links to state information or web documents:
IA(wild strains)*°, IL°, KS°, MI*°, OH*, SD°, TX°, WA*, WV°.
ªAquatic. *Terrestrial. °In seed.
Link to noxious weed information from Invaders Database System

See also subordinate taxa:


Common names:

  • carrot   (Source: BSBI ) – English
  • carrot   (Source: BSBI ) – English   [Daucus carota subsp. sativus]
  • carrot   (Source: World Econ Pl ) – English   [Daucus carota subsp. sativus var. sativus]
  • eastern carrot   (Source: Can J Bot 56:273. [as D. carota var. atrorubens]) – English   [Daucus carota subsp. sativus var. boissieri]
  • Mediterranean carrot   (Source: BSBI ) – English   [Daucus carota subsp. maritimus]
  • Queen Anne's-lace   (Source: World Econ Pl ) – English   [Daucus carota subsp. carota]
  • queen's-lace   (Source: Hortus 3 ) – English   [Daucus carota subsp. carota]
  • salosi   (Source: M. G. Pimenov, p.c.) – English   [Daucus carota subsp. carota]
  • sea carrot   (Source: BSBI ) – English   [Daucus carota subsp. gummifer]
  • wild carrot   (Source: Hortus 3 ) – English   [Daucus carota subsp. carota]
  • carotte   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – French   [Daucus carota subsp. sativus var. sativus]
  • gelbe Rübe   (Source: Zander ed14 ) – German   [Daucus carota subsp. sativus var. sativus]
  • Karotte   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – German   [Daucus carota subsp. sativus var. sativus]
  • Möhre   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – German   [Daucus carota subsp. sativus var. sativus]
  • Mohrrübe   (Source: Zander ed14 ) – German   [Daucus carota subsp. sativus var. sativus]
  • gajar   (Source: P.K. Mukherjee, p.c.) – India   [Daucus carota subsp. sativus var. sativus]
  • carota   (Source: F Ital ) – Italian   [Daucus carota subsp. sativus var. sativus]
  • cenoura   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Portuguese   [Daucus carota subsp. sativus var. sativus]
  • zanahoria   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Spanish   [Daucus carota subsp. sativus var. sativus]

Economic importance:


Distributional range:

      Native:
  • AFRICA
    Northern Africa: Algeria; Morocco; Tunisia
  • ASIA-TEMPERATE
    Western Asia: Afghanistan; Iran; Iraq; Israel; Jordan; Lebanon; Syria
    Caucasus: Armenia; Azerbaijan; Georgia
    Middle Asia: Kazakhstan; Kyrgyzstan; Tajikistan; Turkmenistan; Uzbekistan
    China: China
  • EUROPE
    Europe
  • ALSO
    Russian Federation

      Naturalized:
  • widely naturalized elsewhere

References:

More:

Synonyms:


Check other databases for Daucus carota L.:

  • Flora Europaea: Database of European Plants (ESFEDS)
  • TROPICOS: Nomenclatural and Specimen Database of the Missouri Botanical Garden
  • PROTABASE: Plant Resources of Tropical Africa's (PROTA's) online resource
  • ePIC: Electronic Plant Information Centre of Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
  • AGRICOLA: Article Citation Database or NAL Catalog of USDA's National Agricultural Library
  • Entrez: NCBI's search engine for PubMed citations, GenBank sequences, etc.
    Note: Defaults to a search by genus or species epithet if species binomial not found.

Images:

More:
  • Check PlantSystematics.org for additional images
  • Google Images Images Note: Be advised that their identity may be inaccurate. Proper identification of a plant may require specialized taxonomic knowledge or comparison with properly documented herbarium material.

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Germplasm Resources Information Network - (GRIN) [Online Database].
National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland.
URL: http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/taxon.pl?300172 (09 February 2010)

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