How come the middle is darker? Different bug to pollinate? Asking for a friend.
by tretro08
How come the middle is darker? Different bug to pollinate? Asking for a friend.
by tretro08
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Is this Ammi/Daucus/Dara or False Queen Anne’s Lace? If so, that dark spot is like a landing pad for pollinators from what I understand. It doesn’t always show up on the center of the umbels but often does. There’s old “folklore” that Queen Anne’s Lace (which all of the varieties I mentioned above) is named as such because legend says that Queen Anne pricked her finger while sowing lace and the dark dot is meant to represent the blood from her finger.
Daucus “Purple Kisses” is one of my favorite flowers to grow!
https://preview.redd.it/yzuoltnzgezg1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=bd6e0320f6c03a7747aefbbfc3541db611cd73c2
Queen Anne’s lace has a spot where her bloody head was chopped off.
Worth remembering that Daucus carota is non-native to the entire continent and considered invasive over a substantial portion of “North America” [https://www.invasiveplantatlas.org/subject.cfm?sub=5514](https://www.invasiveplantatlas.org/subject.cfm?sub=5514)