Chicory
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.
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.
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