Carrot Tincture & Alcohol-Free Extract

Carrot (Daucus carota) is a biennial of the carrot family, Apiaceae, whose wild form, Queen Anne's lace, is native to Europe and southwest Asia and naturalized along roadsides across North America; the orange-rooted garden carrot was selected in Persia and Afghanistan. In its first year it makes a rosette of finely divided, feathery leaves above the taproot; in the second it sends up a hairy stem 30 to 120 centimeters tall topped by flat, lacy umbels of tiny white flowers, often with a single dark red flower in the center. The small, bristly, ribbed fruits smell warmly aromatic when crushed. We extract the dried root and seed separately.