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

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

You may have heard of chicory coffee, but it's increasingly common to see chicory root fiber used as a supplement or food additive. Here are 5 emerging benefits and uses of chicory root fiber.

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 ...

Chicory has even been used as a flavoring in beer. But perhaps chicory’s most famous use is as an additive to, or even substitute for, coffee. This is what I encountered in New Orleans.