Daucus carota

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Family Apiaceae

Taxonomy: Daucus carota L.

Synonyms: none listed in the APC 2026-07-30

Distribution (APC): WA (naturalised), SA (naturalised), Qld (naturalised), NSW (naturalised), ACT (doubtfully naturalised), Vic (naturalised), Tas (naturalised)

Profiles: APC, Flora of Australia, ALA, iNaturalist, NSW Flora, SA eFlora, Vic Flora, Florabase, ATRP

Traits

Top source datasets: Morgan_2011_1 (5), NHNSW_2014_2 (5), NHNSW_2024 (6), RBGV_2022 (4), RBGV_2023 (11), SAH_2022 (4), SAH_2023 (5), Sjostrom_2006 (3), WAH_2022_2 (4), WAH_2023_2 (2), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), eFLOWER_2021 (35). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 47 traits from 87 records in 13 datasets.

Traits by category (click to expand). For categorical traits, the values are listed. For numerical traits, the mean and range are shown.

flower morphology

flower_colour (categorical): pink (1); white_cream (1) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2]
sex_type (categorical): hermaphrodite (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]

fruit morphology

fruit_length (numerical): 3.25 mm (2-4 mm) [sources: NHNSW_2024; RBGV_2023]
fruit_type (categorical): mericarp (3) [sources: RBGV_2023; SAH_2023; Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_dehiscence (categorical): indehiscent (2) [sources: RBGV_2023; Sjostrom_2006]

leaf morphology

leaf_length (numerical): 215 mm (150-280 mm) [sources: NHNSW_2024; RBGV_2023]
leaf_type (categorical): broadleaf (1) [sources: NHNSW_2024]
leaf_base_shape (categorical): sheathing (2) [sources: NHNSW_2024; RBGV_2023]
leaf_compoundness (categorical): compound (3) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2; RBGV_2023; SAH_2023]
leaf_phyllotaxis (categorical): alternate (1) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2]
plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (3) [sources: NHNSW_2024; RBGV_2023; SAH_2023]

life history

plant_growth_form (categorical): herb (4) [sources: RBGV_2022; SAH_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
life_form (categorical): hemicryptophyte (1) [sources: Morgan_2011_1]
life_history (categorical): biennial (5) [sources: Morgan_2011_1; RBGV_2022; SAH_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2023]
woodiness_detailed (categorical): herbaceous (4) [sources: RBGV_2022; SAH_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
stem_growth_habit (categorical): erect (3) [sources: RBGV_2022; SAH_2022; WAH_2022_2]
dispersal_syndrome (categorical): epizoochory (1) [sources: Morgan_2011_1]
flowering_time (categorical): yyyyynnnyyyy (1) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2]
vegetative_reproduction_ability (categorical): not_vegetative (1) [sources: Morgan_2011_1]

whole plant morphology

plant_height (numerical): 0.99 m (0.3-1.5 m) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2; RBGV_2023; SAH_2023; WAH_2023_2]

Sources

dataset_id	n_traits	n_records	reference
eFLOWER_2021	26	35	J. Schönenberger, M. Balthazar, A. L. Martinez, B. Albert, C. Prieu, S. Magallon, and H. Sauquet. “Phylogenetic analysis of fossil flowers using an angiosperm-wide data set: proof-of-concept and challenges ahead”. American Journal of Botany 107.10 (2020), pp. 1433-1448. doi: 10.1002/ajb2.1538.
RBGV_2023	9	11	VicFlora. Flora of Victoria, Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2023. url: https://vicflora.rbg.vic.gov.au/.
NHNSW_2024	5	6	N. H. of New South Wales. The Plant Information Network System of The Royal Botanic Gardens and Domain Trust Version 2.0.. accessed on December, 2023.. 2024. url: https://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/.
Morgan_2011_1	5	5	J. Morgan. “Unpublished data: Grassy woodland traits, La Trobe University”. 2011.
NHNSW_2014_2	5	5	Royal Botanic Gardens Sydney. PLantNET: NSW flora online. 2014. url: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/.
SAH_2023	4	5	S. H. of South Australia. eFlora of SA, Electronic Flora of South Australia. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2022. url: http://www.flora.sa.gov.au/.
RBGV_2022	4	4	VicFlora. Flora of Victoria, Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2022. url: https://vicflora.rbg.vic.gov.au/.
SAH_2022	4	4	S. H. of South Australia. eFlora of SA, Electronic Flora of South Australia. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2022. url: http://www.flora.sa.gov.au/.
WAH_2022_2	4	4	Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/.
Sjostrom_2006	3	3	A. Sjöström and C. L. Gross. “Life-history characters and phylogeny are correlated with extinction risk in the Australian angiosperms”. Journal of Biogeography 33.2 (2006), pp. 271-290. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2699.2005.01393.x.
WAH_2023_2	1	2	Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/.
Wenk_2022	2	2	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
Wenk_2023	1	1	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.