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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 |
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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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