Contains 2 accepted taxa overall.

Characteristics
Daucus L.
WILD CARROT
Classification
APIALES
Daucus
Citation
DAUCUS Linnaeus, Sp. Pl. 242. 1753.
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TYPE: Daucus carota Linnaeus Lectotypified by Britton & A. Brown, Ill. Fl. N. U.S., ed. 2. 2: 625. 1913.
Species
Scientific Name Common Name Herbarium Specimens Status Photos
Daucus carota QUEEN ANNE'S LACE Not Native UPL (NWPL)
Daucus pusillus AMERICAN WILD CARROT Native
[Family identification key]
1.  Involucral bracts trifid, scarcely bristly, scarious-margined, spreading or reflexed in fruit; prickles of fruit not barbed
1.  Involucral bracts pinnatifid, bristly, not scarious-margined, appressed to the umbel in fruit; prickles of fruit apically barbed
Genus Synonyms
Synonym Full Citation Basionym Type
Ammodaucus Ammodaucus Cosson & Durieu de Maisonnueve ex Cosson, Bull. Soc. Bot. France 6: 393. 1859. TYPE: Ammodaucus leucotrichus (Cosson & Durieu de Maisonnueve) Cosson & Durieu de Maisonnueve ex Cosson (Torilis leucotricha Cosson & Durieu de Maisonnueve)
Ballimon Ballimon Rafinesque, New Fl. 4: 28. 1838 ("1836"). TYPE: Non designatus.
Carota Carota Ruprecht, Fl. Ingr. 466. 1860. TYPE: Carota sativa Ruprecht (Daucus carota Linnaeus) = Daucus Linnaeus 1753, by lectotypification.
Ctenodaucus Ctenodaucus Pomel, Nouv. Mat. Fl. Atl. 145. 1874. TYPE: Ctenodaucus virgatus (Poiret) Pomel (Caucalis virgata Poiret)
Durieua Durieua Boissier & Reuter, Biblioth. Universele Geneve 75: 206. 1842, non Merat de Vaumartoise 1829. TYPE: Durieua hispanica (Lamarck) Boissier & Reuter (Caucalis hispanica Lamarck)
Meopsis Meopsis (Calestani) Koso-Poljansky, Trudy Tiflissk. Bot. Sada 16: 196. 1914. BASIONYM: Daucus Linnaeus, sect. Meopsis Calestani, Webbia 1: 264. 1905. TYPE: Non designatus.
Peltactila Peltactila Rafinesque, New Fl. 4: 28. 1838 ("1836"). TYPE: Non designatus.
Platyspermum Platyspermum Hoffmann, Gen. Pl. Umbell. xxvi, 64, 178. 1814. TYPE: Platyspermum muricatum (Linnaeus) Hoffmann (Daucus muricatus Linnaeus)
Pomelia Pomelia Durando ex Pomel, Mat. Fl. Atl. 7. 1860. TYPE: Pomelia setifolia (Desfontaines) Durando ex Pomel (Daucus setifolium Desfontaines)
Spuriodaucus Spruiodaucus C. Norman, in De Wildeman, Contr. Fl. Katanga, Suppl. 3. 119. 1930. TYPE: Spuriodaucus quarrei C. Norman
Staflinus Staflinus Rafinesque, New Fl. 4: 28. 1838 ("1836"). TYPE: Non designatus.
Tiricta Tiricta Rafinesque, New Fl. 4: 22. 1838 ("1836"). TYPE: Tiricta daucoides Rafinesque