Hi nut, I really do have to disagree. I agree if you want you can say, "I call my cat a 'fish', and I call my dog a 'hippo'." That's fine, it really is, but it doesn't help communication. We have a few wonderful resources called the internet, Google, Google image, the library, books. All we have to do is use them. Now when I was a student a friend brought in a plant that none of us knew. "What is it?" we all asked. "The Indian Doctor Plant". So that's what we all called it, for a year. Then one person asked why is it called 'The Indian Doctor Plant'? Because the Indian Doctor gave us a cutting. We have brains if we only use them. We can learn and communicate better if only we want to.
Richard Mabey in Flora Britannica under Anthriscus sylvestris lists
Queen Anne's Lace, Fairy lace, Spanish lace. Kex, kecksie, Queque, Mother die, Step mother, Grandpas's pepper, Hedge parsley, Badman's oatmeal, Blackman's tobacco and rabbit meat Not a bad collection.
Daucus carota just gets wild carrot and bird's nest.
I don't think you can have a right and wrong in common names. If it's what people call them it's the common name.
Yes, if that's what people use then that's the name. However, if a 20% of people mean carrot, 20% of people mean cow parsley, 20% mean Bishop's Weed, 20% mean Hemlock and the other 20% mean any umbell then telling some Queen Anne's lace can be good to eat could get you into trouble. Common names are therefore pretty meaningless. But you can call it whatever you like.
You can't call Cow parsley what ever you call it where you live makes no difference as long as you don't mistake it for Fools Parsley. And that you recolonize Hemlock I think this is more important to say Fools Parsley and Hemlock are the poisonous ones
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Queen Anne's Lace is wild carrot, sorry guys.
Local names again Jim, nothing definitive. My mother called cow parsley Queen Anne's Lace.
I think the problem is that all those white umbellifers get lumped together and share names
In the sticks near Peterborough
Hi nut, I really do have to disagree. I agree if you want you can say, "I call my cat a 'fish', and I call my dog a 'hippo'." That's fine, it really is, but it doesn't help communication. We have a few wonderful resources called the internet, Google, Google image, the library, books. All we have to do is use them. Now when I was a student a friend brought in a plant that none of us knew. "What is it?" we all asked. "The Indian Doctor Plant". So that's what we all called it, for a year. Then one person asked why is it called 'The Indian Doctor Plant'? Because the Indian Doctor gave us a cutting. We have brains if we only use them. We can learn and communicate better if only we want to.
Richard Mabey in Flora Britannica under Anthriscus sylvestris lists
Queen Anne's Lace, Fairy lace, Spanish lace. Kex, kecksie, Queque, Mother die, Step mother, Grandpas's pepper, Hedge parsley, Badman's oatmeal, Blackman's tobacco and rabbit meat Not a bad collection.
Daucus carota just gets wild carrot and bird's nest.
I don't think you can have a right and wrong in common names. If it's what people call them it's the common name.
In the sticks near Peterborough
I know kecks pansyface but bannikers are new to me
In the sticks near Peterborough
Yes, if that's what people use then that's the name. However, if a 20% of people mean carrot, 20% of people mean cow parsley, 20% mean Bishop's Weed, 20% mean Hemlock and the other 20% mean any umbell then telling some Queen Anne's lace can be good to eat could get you into trouble. Common names are therefore pretty meaningless. But you can call it whatever you like.
In Lancashire too.
And Pants are Trousers and Troose are 'ladies Trousers' 
And you don't get snowed under with work you get snood under in my family.
Ah. I think OH has something closely related. They came from an army surplus place. They'd been around a while. Very musty smell
In the sticks near Peterborough
Lots.
even in dry east anglia
In the sticks near Peterborough
You can't call Cow parsley what ever you call it where you live makes no difference as long as you don't mistake it for Fools Parsley. And that you recolonize Hemlock I think this is more important to say Fools Parsley and Hemlock are the poisonous ones