Blooms: July-October
Habit: herb
Duration: biennial,perennial
Origin: Introduced from Europe
Distribution: Widely distributed throughout most of Washington; widely distributed throughout most of North America.
Habitat: Dry to moist soil, pastures, roadsides, and other disturbed areas.

Species Description:

General: Perennial from a deep taproot, 3-17 dm. tall, with milky juice.
Leaves: Lower leaves oblanceolate, petiolate, pinnatifid or toothed, 6-25 cm. long and 1-7 cm. wide, becoming reduced, sessile and entire upward.
Flowers: Heads nearly sessile, borne 1-3 together in the axils of the small upper leaves, up to 4 cm. wide; flowers blue, all ligulate and perfect; involucre 9-15 mm. high, the bracts in two series, the outer about half as long as the inner; pappus of narrow, minute scales.
Fruits: Achenes weakly 5-angled, 2-3 mm. long, tipped with a crown of minute scales.

Cichorium intybus L.

Treated in Flora of the PNW as:

PNW Herbaria Specimens: View list of Cichorium intybus specimens in the Consortium of Pacific Northwest Herbaria database.

WTU Herbarium Specimens: View list of Cichorium intybus specimens in the WTU Herbarium database.

Washington Flora Checklist: Cichorium intybus treatment.

E-Flora BC: Cichorium intybus atlas page.

CalPhotos: Cichorium intybus images.

USDA Plants Database: Cichorium intybus.