| Common Names - Carrot Family | Synonyms - |
| Authority - Juss. | Total Number of genera - 446 |
| Gymnosperm or Angiosperm? - Angiosperm | Total Number of species - 3540 |
| Plant forms - Herbs, less often trees & shrubs | |
| World Distribution - Cosmopolitan. Northern temperate & mountainous areas. | |
| Comments - Often herbs, less often shrubs or trees The family includes some highly toxic plants, such as hemlock. . Has wood. | |
| 1 - Aciphylla. 2 - Arracacia. 3 - Bupleurum. 4 - Daucus. 5 - Eryngium. 6 - Heteromorpha. 7 - Laserpitium. 8 - Steganotaenia. |