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Cichorium intybus
Native to Europe but naturalized in other areas. When flowering, chicory has a tough, grooved, and more or less hairy stem, from 30 to 100 centimetres (10 to 40 in) tall. The leaves are stalked, lanceolate and unlobed. The flower heads are 2 to 4 centimetres (0.79 to 1.6 in) 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.
Elkhorn Slough National Estuarine Research Reserve, CA. http://www.elkhornslough.org/esnerr/
Spotted on Sep 26, 2014
Submitted on Feb 19, 2015
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