Queen Anne’s lace is a lovely wildflower that looks like a delicate, white lacy umbrella or a beautiful snowflake made of flowers! The white part is actually made of hundreds of teeny-tiny flowers all bunched together. This pretty flower is actually the wild ancestor of the carrots we eat!
In the very center of the flower, there is often one tiny dark purple or red dot. People say that dot is a drop of blood from Queen Anne of England, who pricked her finger while making lace! When the seeds start to form, the flower curls inward and makes a shape that looks like a tiny bird’s nest.
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