Daucus carota subsp. carota

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Daucus carota L., Sp. Pl. 242 1753. (syn: Carota sylvestris (Mill.) Rupr. ….);
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wild carrot, (UK) bird’s nest, bishop’s lace, (US) Queen Anne’s lace;
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Daucus carota Linn., Sp. Pl. 242. 1753. var. carota
Common names: Wild carrot, Queen Anne’s-lace, queen’s-lace, salosi
Vernacular: jangli gajjar
Biennial herb up to 1 m tall; tap root slender, woody, branched, not fleshy, usually brown in colour; stem hispid; leaves 2-3 pinnate with linear to oval deeply toothed segments; inflorescence a compound umbel; involucre bracts usually divided, involucel bracts entire or divided; flowers white; ovary hispid; fruit ovoid, 2-3 mm long, spiny.
Common in Kashmir valley on slopes and wastelands. Photographed from Cheshmashahi forest, Srinagar, Kashmir in June.

Sir is the botanical name same for Jangli and Cultivated Gajar?

Cultivated, var. sativa
Here is the key from eFlora of China
1Taproot thickened, elongate terete or clavate, fleshy, reddish, reddish-yellow, or yellow (a carrot). 1b var. sativa
<http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=2&taxon_id=200015519>
+Taproot slender, branched, woody, not fleshy, usually brown. 1a var. carota
<http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=2&taxon_id=242316909>

you are likely to confuse Daucus carota var. carota
with Ammi majus in flowers (although leaf segments are slightly broader in Ammi) but not when Daucus starts fruiting, the whole inflorescence shrinks like a ball and the fruits are very spiny and winged, that must be partly responsible for tangling of fruits. Here are fresh photographs of that.
3 images.

A better focussed mature fruit
1 image.

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Daucus carota Linn., Sp. Pl. 242. 1753. var. carota
Common names: Wild carrot, Queen Anne’s-lace, queen’s-lace, salosi
Vernacular: jangli gajjar
Biennial herb up to 1 m tall; tap root slender, woody, branched, not fleshy, usually brown in colour; stem hispid; leaves 2-3 pinnate with linear to oval deeply toothed segments; inflorescence a compound umbel; involucre bracts usually divided, involucel bracts entire or divided; flowers white; ovary hispid; fruit ovoid, 2-3 mm long, spiny.
Common in Kashmir valley on slopes and wastelands. Photographed from Cheshmashahi forest, Srinagar, Kashmir in June. 
a weed that takes over the meadows in ne states usa and a favorite of flower arrangers the world over.
very nice close up
Yes, it is Queen Ann’s Lace.
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Apiaceae For ID : Sri Lanka : 300314 : AK-46 : Attachments (1). 3 posts by 2 authors.
Seen in a resort garden in Sri Lanka. Is this Daucus carota, Queen Anne’s Lace? Experts kindly confirm id.

yes Daucus carota 

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Is this Umbellifer a wild carrot?: 3 images.

Am posting photos of an Umbellifer for ID.
Habitat: Edge of a lawn in Rawathpora Srinagar (J & K)
Habit: Herb. 50 cm high. Leaves are highly dissected. Thick fleshy tapering tap root about 8cm long and 2.5cm  dia in  the middle. It smells just like a carrot but is white in color. Is it a wild carrot?

Yes, appears so as per images at
https://efloraofindia.com/2011/04/22/daucus-carota/
https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:841063-1

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