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Daucus carota

Flowering Plants

Daucus carota, commonly known as wild carrot, European wild carrot, bird's nest, bishop's lace, or Queen Anne's lace in North America, is a flowering plant in the carrot family Apiaceae. It is native to temperate regions of Europe, northern Africa as far south as Ethiopia, and southwestern and eastern Asia, and has naturalized widely elsewhere. The familiar cultivated carrot is derived from the domesticated subspecies Daucus carota subsp. sativus. The species is assessed as Least Concern by the IUCN. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

Facts

Classification

Diet

Photosynthetic Autotroph 1

System (Realm)

Terrestrial 2

Relationship to People

Domesticated 3

Living or Extinct

Yes 4

Comparison

NatureServe Rank

GNR Unranked 5

CITES Appendix

Not Listed 6

Scientific Name

Daucus carota 4

Conservation Status

Least Concern 1

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Source Daucus carota (Wikidata)

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Sources

1. Daucus carota (Wikipedia)

Infobox: status
LC
lead sentence (diet), EntityId 405909
Daucus carota, whose common names include wild carrot, European wild carrot, bird's nest, bishop's lace, carrot flower, and Queen Anne's lace (North America), is a flowering plant in the family Apiaceae.

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2. World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS)

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3. Wikipedia: Daucus carota

human-interaction (MediaWiki batch-API article extract states it plainly)

Quote, human-interaction (MediaWiki batch-API article extract states it plainly)

Carrots cultivated as a food crop are cultivars of the domesticated subspecies Daucus carota subsp.

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4. Daucus carota (Wikidata)

Wikidata

Wikidata Q30056 (P225 taxon name)
Statements section, conservation status (P141)
IUCN Red List conservation status (Wikidata property P141): least concern.
Child Taxon Of: Apiaceae, Wikidata parent-taxon (P171) chain

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5. NatureServe Explorer: Daucus carota

NatureServe ExplorerGlobal rank (roundedGRank)

Quote, Global rank (roundedGRank)

"roundedGRank": "GNR"

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6. UNEP-WCMC Species+ database (CITES Secretariat): Species+: Apiales

UNEP-WCMC Species+ database (CITES Secretariat)Species+ taxon_concepts, id 12433

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"cites_listing":"II/NC","eu_listing":"B/NC","higher_taxa":{"kingdom":"Plantae","phylum":null,"class":null,"order":"Apiales","family":null},"synonyms":[],"common_names":[],"cites_listings":[]

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