This common chicory flower was bustling with activity. A small native bee species was looking for nectar, while a hoverfly species was waiting for a chance to grab some pollen. PHOTO BY BILL DANIELSON ...

Common chicory, or wild chicory, is native to Africa, Asia and Europe, but has spread worldwide and is now classed as a ...

July brings patriotism, hot weather, hot dogs, fireworks and chicory blooming along the roadsides in Wisconsin. The pretty blue blooms are common chicory — Cichorium intybus —a plant that ...

A native species of the Old World, chicory was brought to North America by European colonists. It quickly escaped from wherever it had been planted and became a naturalized wildflower species. Today, ...

The pretty blue blooms are common chicory, Cichorium intybus, a plant that originated in the Mediterranean and was cultivated in North America from the 1700s until the 1950s when it became more ...

Common chicory, otherwise known by its Latin name as Cichorium intybus, is in full bloom around the Hicksville landscape. This bluish wildflower, which is a naturalized plant from Europe, can be ...

Common chicory Prof. Dr. Otto Wilhelm Thomé Flora von Deutschland, Österreich und der Schweiz 1885, Gera, Germany via Wikimedia Commons. Coffee ...

Common chicory, also known as blue daisy, blue dandelion, blue sailors, blue weed, bunk, coffeeweed, cornflower, horseweed, ragged sailors, succory, wild bachelor's buttons and wild endive is ...

While raw escarole has a springy, vegetal quality, a bit like a mild romaine, with heat it seems to mellow and ripen in flavor, growing, like Cinderella, only the sweeter for its ordeal. As plants ...

Chicory is spread primarily by seeds. This plant is not as common as many weeds in horse pastures but occurs in more abundance in pastures that are not mowed. Chicory is relatively easy to control ...