Chicory, Wild Succory
Cichorium intybus
![Flower head of Chicory, Wild Succory: Cichorium intybus](cichorumintybus1.jpg)
The photo above shows a close-up of the ray
flowers that make up a flower head of chicory as seen at about 3000' at SnowKing
Snopark along Road #82 on the south side of Mt. Adams.........August
25, 2005.
![Involucral bracts of Chicory, Wild Succory: Cichorium intybus](cichorumintybus.jpg)
The photo above shows a close-up side-view
of a flower head of chicory as seen at about 3000' at SnowKing Snopark along
Road #82 on the south side of Mt. Adams..........August 25, 2005. Note
that the outer (basal) involucral bracts are shorter than the inner (upper)
bracts.
![Inflorescence of Chicory, Wild Succory: Cichorium intybus](cichorumintybus3a.jpg)
The photo above shows chicory in gravel along Kreps Lane in Conboy
National Wildlife Refuge...........July 9, 2006. Plants have either
light blue or cream-colored flower heads. I've noticed that cattle often go
for this plant as a food source before other weedy species!
Paul Slichter