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Cichorium intybus
Woody, perennial herbaceous plant usually with bright blue flowers, rarely white or pink. Various varieties are cultivated for salad leaves, chicons (blanched buds), or for roots (var. sativum), 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. When flowering, chicory has a tough, grooved, and more or less hairy stem, from 30 to 100 centimetres tall. The leaves are stalked, lanceolate and unlobed. The flower heads are 2 to 4 centimetres wide, and usually bright blue, rarely white or pink. There are two rows of involucral bracts; the inner are longer and erect, the outer are shorter and spreading. It flowers from July until October. The achenes have no pappus (feathery hairs), but do have toothed scales on top.
In suburban area. Universidad Autónoma de Madrid
Camera Model: NIKON D300. Exposure Time: 1/500 sec. f/11 ISO Speed Rating: 400. Focal Length: 300.0 mm.
Spotted on Jul 9, 2012
Submitted on Jul 20, 2012
2 Comments
Thanks Maria
lovely series!