Wild Carrot / Queen Anne's Lace - How to ID, Uses, Harvest, and More! 

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Wild Carrot, Queen Anne's Lace, Bird's Nest - Daucus carota
Queen Anne's lace AKA wild carrot is an introduce wild edible and medicinal plant that can be found across North America. It's a showy medicinal flower that you can often find along roadsides and fields. All parts of the edible plant are in fact edible including the leaves, stem, roots, flowers, and seeds. Foraging for this plant also might be something of interest because it's a wild medicinal plant as well.
An interesting use for Queen Anne's lace / wild carrot is the seeds have been used as a natural contraceptive. The seeds have been used as a kind of morning after pill to prevent conception.
Wild carrot does have some similar looking plants thar are poisonous, so please be sure to make a positive identification before using Queen Anne's lace.
Please consume wild plants at your own risk! Consult multiple reliable sources before consuming any wild plants! This video is for information and entertainment only!
References
Jones, Brenda. Medicinal Herbs of Eastern Canada: a pictorial manual. Nimbus Publishing Limited. 2020.
MacKinnon, A. Edible and Medicinal Plants of Canada. Lone Pine Media Productions (BC) Ltd. 2014.