Seasonal Wild Flowers

Sea Carrot

Daucus carota subsp. Gummifer

Apiaceae

June to September

It is coastal in the Southwest, the South and the far

Southeast.

It is thinly scattered elsewhere.

See the BSBI distribution map for Sea Carrot

It is found by the coast, mailnly on grassland on cliffs and

stabilised sand dunes.

Sea Carrot is a native, biennial herbs growing up to 1.5m.

It is very similar to Wild Carrot, but Sea Carrot has stouter,

more succulent stems, darker green leaves, the fruiting-

umbels are more saucer-like in shape and it is confined

to the coast.

Sea Carrot is most different from Wild Carrot in the West,

in Cornwall and Devon. The differences get progressively

less the further east and north you go.

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Sea Carrot on cliff slide,

Charmouth, Dorset

Different aged flowerheads

White flowerhead

Pink flowerhead with forked bracts

Close-up of individual flowers

Saucer-shaped immature flower head

Leaves and hairy stem