MaineNatureDiary

Queen Anne’s Lace Slideshow: The first slide shows a new flower bundle (umbel) with the first flowers just beginning to develop. They have a pink blush to them when they are young, and turn white upon maturity. The flowers seem to get larger along the edge, and smaller toward the middle of each floral cluster of the umbel, however if you look closely, each flower has a spot of red in its middle. The last slide shows an umbel that has completed its bloom cycle and has gone to seed. Queen Anne’s Lace is in the parsley family and it grows in fields and dry waste places, like the milkweed field next to some mining property.