Flora of the Hawaiian Islands - Species Page/ Botany, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution

Dicotyledon	Literature for Daucus pusillus Wagner et al., 1990, 1999.
Apiaceae -- The Parsley Family	Bibliography
*Daucus pusillus*
Common name(s): carrot, American carrot

General Information
Distribution	Native to North and South America.In the Hawaiian Islands, indigenous to Kaua`i, O`ahu, Moloka`i, Lana`i, Hawai`i.


Habit	Annual herbs 3-90 cm tall; stems usually solitary, unbranched or few-branched above, retrorsely papillate-hispid.
Leaves	Leaves oblong in general outline, 3-10.5 cm long excluding the petioles, 1.5-7 cm wide, the ultimate divisions linear, 1-5 mm long, 0.5-1 mm wide, ± hispid, apex acute, petioles 4-15 cm long.
Flowers	Flowers white, peduncles 1.1-4.5 dm long, retrorsely papillate-hispid, involucre of foliaceous, pinnately decompound bracts, the divisions short, linear or lanceolate, rays few to numerous, unequal, 0.4-4 cm long, compact in fruit, pedicels unequal, 2-9 mm long, involucel of linear, acute bractlets, about equalling the pedicels; calyx teeth 0.1-0.2 mm long.
Fruit	Fruit oblong, 3-5 mm long, ca. 2 mm wide, usually broadest below the middle, the commissural surface with 2 rows of hispidulous hairs, mericarps readily separating.





Chromosomes	2n = 22.