Daucus pusillusMichx.

American wild carrot

WFO wfo-0000638630 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h

Daucus pusillus, photographed by George Williams
fig. a George Williams, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-05-22 / obs. 199905350

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Confused withby our own model

These are not lookalikes we guessed at. Each one is a species our identification model genuinely mistook for this plant, and how many times. The error rate is published.

Flowering n = 315 observations

Flowering observations of Daucus pusillus by month
MonthObservations
Jan0
Feb0
Mar36
Apr134
May110
Jun17
Jul7
Aug0
Sep1
Oct2
Nov8
Dec0

Peak flowering in Apr, from 315 community-annotated observations worldwide. This is a global aggregate, not a forecast for your garden: the same species flowers on different dates in different hemispheres, and citizen-science records cluster near cities, at weekends, and in spring. Where a species has fewer than 30 annotated records we do not draw this chart at all.

Also published as 9 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

  • Babiron pusillum Raf.
  • Daucus arcanus García-Martín & Silvestre
  • Daucus australis Poepp. ex DC.
  • Daucus brevifolius Raf.
  • Daucus hispidifolius Clos
  • Daucus montevidensis Link ex Spreng.
  • Daucus scaber Nutt. ex Torr. & A.Gray
  • Daucus scaber Larrañaga
  • Daucus scadiophylus Raf.

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.

We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice, no toxicity claim and no native range, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite.