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Cichorium intybus
It is a perennial herbaceous plant usually with bright blue flowers, rarely white or pink. Common chicory is also known as blue daisy, blue dandelion, blue sailors, blue weed, bunk, coffeeweed, cornflower, hendibeh, horseweed, ragged sailors, succory, wild bachelor's buttons, and wild endive.
It lives as a wild plant on roadsides in its native Europe, and in North America and Australia, where it has become naturalized.
While 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 used as a traditional herbal medicine. It is also grown as a forage crop for livestock.
Spotted on Sep 25, 2012
Submitted on Mar 15, 2013
2 Comments
Tnx :)
It's some species of chickory, Chicorum. Don't know what species grow in your area, but it looks a lot like Cichorium intybus, aka common chickory.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicory