What is Daucus carota used for?

Seeds are aromatic, carminative, diuretic, emmenagogue, and stimulant, and are used for dropsy, chronic dysentery, kidney ailments, and worms. Also as an aphrodisiac, a nervine tonic, and for uterine pain. Roots are refrigerant and are used in infusion for threadworm.

Is Daucus carota toxic?

Daucus carota has no toxic effects reported.

What is the common name of Daucus carota?

Daucus carota, whose common names include wild carrot, bird’s nest, bishop’s lace, and Queen Anne’s lace (North America), is a white, flowering plant in the family Apiaceae, native to temperate regions of Europe and southwest Asia, and naturalized to North America and Australia.

Is the Daucus carota plant harmful to carrots?

Wild carrot can also negatively affect commercial carrot cultivation through genetic introgression in seed crops. Daucus carota is a complex, very variable species comprising wild and cultivated carrots, resulting in a confused taxonomy.

How many subspecies of Daucus carota are there?

Daucus carota is a complex, very variable species comprising wild and cultivated carrots, resulting in a confused taxonomy. The complex is subdivided into 13 subspecies, 12 for wild taxa and one for the cultivated taxon (subsp. sativus (Hoffm.)

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