Irish wildflowers sitemap
Photos: Crookhaven, Co.Cork 
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Wild Carrot Umbels of small white or white/pinkish flowers, central flower often red. Umbel rays become contracted, concave in fruit. Fruit oblong, short spines. Leaves pinnate, lanceolate-oval with pinnatifid leaflets. Ridged stems. Erect, narrowly branched, hairy plant. Height: To 100 cm. Calcareous soils, grassland, roadsides, coastal cliffs. Similar: Sea Carrot (D.carota ssp. gummifer) Flowers June-July. Blunter, fleshy leaflets. Hairier. Umbels only slightly contract in fruit. Shorter, to 25cm. Coastal, SW, SE Ireland. 
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Wild Carrot. County Cork.
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