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Common Chicory - Cichorium intybus
Commonly called blue
sailors, chicory, coffeeweed, Common chicory, succory
Family: Aster (Asteraceae)
Habitat: fields, roadsides, waste places
For some unknown reason, I
rarely see insects busy in chicory flowers. Two exceptions noted below
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Height: 1-4
feet. Flower size: 1-1/2 inches across / Flower color: light
blue, occasionally white or pink / Flowering time: June to
October
Chicory was introduced to America during colonial times. The
roots are used in herb teas and as a coffee substitute, and the
leaves of selected varieties are grown as a salad green.
Kingdom Plantae -- Planta, plantes, plants, Vegetal
Subkingdom
Tracheobionta -- vascular plants
Division Magnoliophyta --
angiospermes, angiosperms, flowering plants, phanérogames,
plantes à fleurs, plantes à fruits
Class Magnoliopsida --
dicots, dicotylédones, dicotyledons
Subclass Asteridae /
Order Asterales / Family Asteraceae -- sunflowers, tournesols
Genus Cichorium L. -- chicory
Direct Children:
Species Cichorium endivia L. -- cultivated endive
Species
Cichorium intybus L. -- blue sailors, chicory, coffeeweed,
Common chicory, succory
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