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Herbs or small shrubs; epigynous disc usually swelling at the base of the styles on the fruit Apiaceae
Leaves and bracts never pungent pointed
Umbels compound
Fruit and ovary densely prickly Daucus
Umbellules more than 6-flowered; umbels usually with more than 6 regular rays, terminal. Mature fruit 3–4 mm long. Coarse, erect herb up to 150 cm high. Coast and Cumberland Plain. Waste places. Introd. from Europe. Fl. spring–autumn. Wild Carrot Daucus carota