CHICORY

Chicory

Common chicory, Cichorium intybus, is a somewhat woody, perennial herbaceous plant usually with bright blue flowers, rarely white or pink. Various varieties are cultivated for salad leaves, chicons, or for roots, which are baked, ground, and used as a coffee substitute and additive. It is also grown as a forage crop for livestock. It lives as a wild plant on roadsides in its native Europe, and in North America and Australia, where it has become naturalized.

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chicory

Noun

  1. Either of two plants of the Asteraceae family
    1. (Cichorium intybus), the source of radicchio, Belgian endive, and sugarloaf.
    2. endive (Cichorium endivia)


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