Daucus carota

Also known as Queen Anne's Lace, Bird's Nest, Bishop's Lace, Carrot Flower

Queen Anne's lace graces roadsides and meadows with delicate, flat-topped white flower clusters that often feature a single, tiny dark purple blossom at the very center. This biennial plant spends its first year as a low-growing rosette of fern-like leaves before sending up a hairy flower stalk in its second summer. As the seeds mature, the entire flower head curls inward to resemble a miniature bird's nest.