is this certainly wild carrot?

Fire

I did direct sprinkle a load of wild carrot (Daucus carota) this spring - along with other seeds from the carrot family (a large genus) . Not a great deal happened this year. Now there are lots of these sprigs appearing.  Lots in the family look and smell so similar. Would you say that this is certainly well carrot - and therefore edible?

Topbird

No idea @Fire - looks more like a weird little alien doing the hokey-cokey to me😁

wild edges

Wild carrot is one of those plants you have to treat with care due to similar family members being very toxic. Follow a good key if you can and never assume a plant is fine to eat unless totally sure.

https://www.wildfooduk.com/edible-wild-plants/wild-carrot/

Fire

Thanks. I'm not planning to eat it.

Rubytoo

Root and leaf look like ours. I pull up loads of seedlings they go mad here, and yours look like ours.
Like first year plants, they are biennial.
I am pretty sure, we have grown them here for a few years now.
Post next year when they have flowered, as per finger puppet mans link, the seed heads are pretty distinctive.

Fire

thanks @Rubytoo - that makes perfect sense. I hope it well self seed next year

NormandyLiz

I hope they seed for you, @fire. They're gorgeous. I'll post some photos later.

bédé

I judge by seedhead and crushed leaf smell.  Better not to eat.

punkdoc

There are so many similar plants it could be, I think seed heads would be the only reliable way to be sure.

NormandyLiz

The flowers are pretty distinctive, or rather the lower bracts which are 3 forked.



and then this is the seed head



I think it's the most delicate of the umbellifers which helps it work with other plants. I have it with devil's bit scabious.

Rubytoo

NormandyLiz said:

I hope they seed for you, @fire. They're gorgeous. I'll post some photos later.

Lovely photos,  and your description is what we like about them too.
Ditto on hope they do well for you Fire.