Wild Carrot??

[Greg]

Any thoughts on this..is it Wild Carrot??
It is growing in amongst meadow grass.

 

[nigelp]

http://paulkirtley.co.uk/2014/careful-with-your-carrots-a-case-in-point/

 

[slowworm]

At first glance I would have said that was a pignut flower.

 

[Mesquite]

At first glance I would have said that was a pignut flower.

Totally wrong leaf shape to be pignut

Conopodium majus: Pignuts and How to Forage for them

The pignut, Conopodium majus, is one of the most palatable wild foods. The tuber can be eaten raw and is very tasty. To the uninitiated, pignuts can be hard to spot. Once you've been shown the plant and know where to forage, they are surprisingly common.

paulkirtley.co.uk

 

[slowworm]

Totally wrong leaf shape to be pignut

Not on the flower stalk it isn't. I've got fields of flowering pignuts at the moment.

 

[punkrockcaveman]

My first thought is pignut, and I found my first ones yesterday. It's the right time of year, right leaf shape, its small and delicate enough.

I think wild carrot gets a kind of spikey looking crown around the flower head. That probably makes no sense without pictures


Edit: the spikey crown is this bit hanging under the flower head on wild carrot;

 

[Broch]

I know I sound like a broken record - but please be very careful identifying the umbellifers!

Here's a summary table that I put together a couple of years back now. The typing in italics defines any diagnostic characteristics for that species.

 

[nigelp]

I know I sound like a broken record - but please be very careful identifying the umbellifers!

Here's a summary table that I put together a couple of years back now. The typing in italics defines any diagnostic characteristics for that species.

Brilliant. Thank you

 

[MrEd]

I have wild carrot in my garden (I have a large bit sewn as meadow) and it doesn’t look anything like the OPs photo

 

[SaraR]

I know I sound like a broken record - but please be very careful identifying the umbellifers!

Here's a summary table that I put together a couple of years back now. The typing in italics defines any diagnostic characteristics for that species.

Amazing, thank you!

 

[Suffolkrafter]

Flower structure and leaves, plus the environment described all point towards pignut, but I say this with no certainty. I'm struggling to see what else it could be though. What sort of size was it? It's certainly not wild carrot. In any case, don't eat it.

 

[Greg]

Flower structure and leaves, plus the environment described all point towards pignut, but I say this with no certainty. I'm struggling to see what else it could be though. What sort of size was it? It's certainly not wild carrot. In any case, don't eat it.

Definitely have no intention of eating it