QUEEN ANNE'S LACE

Volume III Issue IV July/August 2017

Along with parsley, fennel and numerous other umbelliferous plants, Queen Anne’s Lace is a biennial belonging to one of the largest families in the plant kingdom, the Apiaceae. Many members of this family have been cultivated for medicinal, culinary and ornamental value since ancient times and are valued as such today. In this issue of An Herbal leaf, read about some of Queen Anne’s Lace relatives, both lethal and domesticated and one of the two queens it might have been named after.