Burke: Cichorium intybus

	Cichorium intybus
	chicory, wild succory
Habit	Perennial from a deep taproot, 3-17 dm. tall, with milky juice.
Leaves	Lower leaves oblanceolate, petiolate, pinnatifid or toothed, 6-25 cm. long and 1-7 cm. wide, becoming reduced, sessile and entire upward.
Flowers	Heads nearly sessile, borne 1-3 together in the axils of the small upper leaves, up to 4 cm. wide; flowers blue, all ligulate and perfect; involucre 9-15 mm. high, the bracts in two series, the outer about half as long as the inner; pappus of narrow, minute scales.
Fruits	Achenes weakly 5-angled, 2-3 mm. long, tipped with a crown of minute scales.

	Cichorium intybus
Flowering time	July-October
Habitat	Roadsides, fields, ditches, wastelots, and other disturbed, open areas at low to middle elevations.
Distribution	Widely distributed on both sides of the Cascades crest in Washington; British Columbia to California, east across much of North America to the Atlantic Coast. [WildflowerSearch map] [BONAP county map]
Origin	Introduced from Europe
Conservation status	Not of concern
Web links	Local floras: BC, CA, OR, WA Local Web sites: CalFlora, CalPhotos, Flora NW, PNW Herbaria, Turner Photog. WildflowerSearch iNaturalist (observations) USDA Plants Database LBJ Wildflower Center SEINet Plants of the World Online Encyclopedia of Life Wikipedia Google Image Search

Cichorium intybus

chicory, wild succory

Habit

Perennial from a deep taproot, 3-17 dm. tall, with milky juice.

Leaves

Lower leaves oblanceolate, petiolate, pinnatifid or toothed, 6-25 cm. long and 1-7 cm. wide, becoming reduced, sessile and entire upward.

Flowers

Heads nearly sessile, borne 1-3 together in the axils of the small upper leaves, up to 4 cm. wide;

flowers blue, all ligulate and perfect;

involucre 9-15 mm. high, the bracts in two series, the outer about half as long as the inner;

pappus of narrow, minute scales.

Fruits

Achenes weakly 5-angled, 2-3 mm. long, tipped with a crown of minute scales.

Cichorium intybus

Flowering time

July-October

Habitat

Roadsides, fields, ditches, wastelots, and other disturbed, open areas at low to middle elevations.

Distribution

Widely distributed on both sides of the Cascades crest in Washington; British Columbia to California, east across much of North America to the Atlantic Coast.

[WildflowerSearch map]

[BONAP county map]

Origin

Introduced from Europe

Conservation status

Not of concern

Web links