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Wild Carrot (Daucus carota L.)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 June 2017

Larry W. Mitich
Larry W. Mitich*
Affiliation:
Dep. Vegetable Crops, Univ. California, Davis, CA 95616
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Abstract

“Cool white, and intricate, Queen Anne's lace hedges our summer highways with spendthrift loveliness. But who of us can imagine the full beauty and wonder of this plant as we speed by?”—Green Immigrants by Claire Shaver Haughton.

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Intriguing World of Weeds
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Weed Technology , Volume 10 , Issue 2 , June 1996, pp. 455 - 457
Copyright
Copyright © 1996 by the Weed Science Society of America 

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