I went out today & some have tiny buds forming. I'm putting this in the db as Daucus carota. If I see later it is D. pusilla; I can move the photos.

My gut feeling is they are the cultivated carrot, I grow carrots and the leaves look spot on. Horses in the paddocks? People feed horses carrots, some can be trodden into the ground and take root!

No horses but it was AND there is a horse pasture adjoining our rear fence. And who knows, maybe there were horses on our place before the previous owner & his cows.

LOL! I have taken a great liking for wildflowers & gained a hearty respect for them so I did not take a shovel to any in order to see the roots. I find it very difficult to kill wildflowers.

So what do you suggest I actually put it under Janet?
Here is the photo of the tiny buds forming. These are on some very, very tiny plants. I can't even believe the plants would be strong enough to produce blooms yet.



And here is the most mature, most coarse foliage I could find on them thus far.

Carrots left in the ground over winter grow new leaves in spring, and quickly go to seed! Those little flower heads certainly look like seeding cultivated carrots to me. Maybe you can scrape around the roots to see what they look like, cultivated carrots can be yellow and more so if it's a rogue throw back..

Okay, good idea! I had submitted the photos last evening under Queen Anne's lace --- Daucus carota & they have been approved now. But I can move them when.......

I reopened this thread to clarify. This is not a carrot. All four photos in the opening of this thread as well as the last photo posted are in fact Dog Fennel (Eupatorium capillifolium).

The fifth photo in this thread I still believe to be wild carrot.