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Bishop's flower
Ammi majus

Location
Bishop’s flower can be found in the Desert plot.

Description
Annual. Native to North Africa and Eurasia, but now naturalized. Ammi majus is used by florists for its beautiful white flowers, which appear in umbels. This plant is easily confused with Queen Anne’s lace (Daucus carota), but Daucus carota can be identified by the distinctive single purple floret in the center of the umbel, which Ammi majus lacks (Newcomb 1977).

References
Newcomb L. Newcomb’s Wildflower Guide. Little, Brown and Company, Boston, 1977. (p. 220)

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 Georgetown University Medical Center Department of Physiology and Biophysics >> Complementary and Alternative Medicine