Queen Anne's lace is ancestor of today's carrots

Looking a lot like lacy-white umbrellas standing atop 3-foot stems, the roadsides are covered with Queen Anne's lace (Daucus carota sativus), a wild-growing weed that's not bad looking — for a weed, that is.

By Lou Boulmetis, hippodromehatter@aol.com

July 19, 2012