Queen Anne's Revenge

[Crys]

Queen Anne's Chandelier
Doesn't Queen Anne's Lace look like a chandelier up close? Just imagine, each little bud holding a lit candle...


More Alien Palm Trees
Wildflowers look so different when you start looking at them from any angle other than straight on. I especially love the radial pattern in the foreground Queen Anne's Lace.


Nip Out for Some Nectar
Here's another shot of the little winged thing enjoying a tasty treat from the flowers of the Queen Anne's Lace, one of my favorite wildflowers.


Wasp and Lace
I've noticed that each of the different kind of flowers around my apartment attracts different insects. For instance, the hosta I posted earlier today draws mostly ants, who climb up the thick flower stalks, presumably to gather nectar or pollen. The Queen Anne's Lace attracts these little fellows, some kind of small bee or wasp.


A Dainty Snowflake of a Flower
The delicate cluster of flowers on a Queen Anne's Lace probably has the same uniqueness as a snowflake -- no two, out of the millions of billions of them that bloom every year, will ever be exactly identical.


Alien Palm Trees
Well, ok, no, it's Queen Anne's Lace from the wooded hill by my apartment.


Queen Anne's Lace
I've always been curious how this flower got its name. The "Lace" part is obvious, of course, but why Queen Anne? And which Anne? Why not, Queen Elizabeth's Lace? Or King Richard's Lace?

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[j10asen]

[quote="Crys"]
I've always been curious how this flower got its name. The "Lace" part is obvious, of course, but why Queen Anne? And which Anne? Why not, Queen Elizabeth's Lace? Or King Richard's Lace?


Here is what I found googling it

Not surprisingly, this flower originated in Europe. It was given it's name for the lacey nature of the flower head. It was very popular during the reign of who other than Queen Anne. Also known as Wild Carrot, this wildflower is easy to grow, and is prolific in spreading it's seeds by the wind. It can be found growing wild along roadsides and in fields almost anywhere in the U.S.

http://www.gardenersnet.com/flower/queenann.htm

AND


Women have used the seeds from Daucus carota commonly known as wild carrot or queen anne's lace, for centuries as a contraceptive, the earliest written reference dates back to the late 5th or 4th century B.C. appearing in a work written by Hippocrates. John Riddle writes in Eve's Herbs, that queen anne's lace (qal) seeds are one of the more potent antifertility agents available, and a common plant in many regions of the world. "The seeds, harvested in the fall, are a strong contraceptive if taken orally immediately after coitus." (penis/vagina sex) Research on small animals has shown that extracts of the seeds disrupt the implantation process, or if a fertilized egg has implanted for only a short period, will cause it to be released. There has been some research done on wild carrot seeds mostly in other countries, the results of those experiments have been encouraging. The Chinese view QAL as a promising post-colital agent, "recent evidence suggests that terpenoids in the seed block crucial progesterone synthesis in pregnant animals." 1 When asked about the contraceptive effects of wild carrot, some herbalists have described it as having the effect of making the uterus "slippery" so the egg is unable to implant.

http://www.sisterzeus.com/qaluse.htm

[Surf]

[j10asen]

hey Surf
Your Queen Ann's Lace greens up this drab March day.
Very nice, now this reminds me of summer. and a bike ride down a old county road.

[Surf]

We all gotta do what we gotta do to get threw this type of weather!
Surf

[pk]

I totally love the Queen Ann Lace Flowers. They are so delicate and yet they make such a statement in the fields. I remember these flowers when I was young. I had no idea back then what name they had. I kinda wonder if any one really did? They were just wild flower 'weeds' that I enjoyed finding the little purple flowers in the middle.

I really enjoy this picture, thanks for sharing.

pk

[Surf]

Arent' they considered and invasive plant by the DNR?

[pk]

I remembered that I had a couple of pics that I took of queen ann lace flowers one time. I was driving down the road with someone right on my bumper and I was really in a hurry to get somewhere...(I hate always living with appointments)! I slowed up and quickly took a few shots with hopes that I would get back to really take some closeups but never did.

Anyways, please forgive the blurriness but here is the ones I have. And remember, it's still better looking at this then out our windows right now at the weather outside! lol

[Surf]

Is that some poison parsnip in there too? (the yellow?)

[pk]

Arent' they considered and invasive plant by the DNR?

Good question. I will try to look that up and find out. I do know there is a really invasive purple flower in Illinois right across the border you will see all over in fields by the toll roads and such. I loved all pretty they were and begged to have some for my garden years ago. I finally got some and planted them and then found out that everyone was being told NOT to transplant these invasive flower! Well needless to say I have a bunch in my back garden now but they are still beautiful.

I do have pics of them somewhere and will post them sometime. Maybe someone will know the name since it totally escapes me.

pk

[pk]

Is that some poison parsnip in there too? (the yellow?)

well I also wondered why there was 'yellow' among the flowers in the picture and thought maybe it was because of the color and blurry state of the photo. Now I wonder if it could be something else?

I went back to the picture and tried to crop and bring it closer but it still doesn't really show what it is. Interesting.

Well next summer when I'm around that area again I will definately take the time to check it all out closer.

thanks for pointing that out.

pk

[pk]

as you can see by this picture I found on the net I think the 'yellow' you see in my photo could be the ending or drying up of the flowers. I looked closer to the picture and I think that is what it is. The colors in the picture seems distorted and not real clear.

[pk]

Wow, how time flies by! The last set of pictures of Queen Anne's Lace flowers I took was from last summer!

(check the fly out!) too funny.

pk

[pk]

I was walking away when I saw this angle to take this picture and how blue the sky looked.

(the picture was taken at the Racine Zoo)

pk