Blue Chicory Flowers. Photos and information about minnesota flora chicory. During the summer you may notice pretty blue flowers painting many roadsides.
Common chicory cichorium intybus is a somewhat woody perennial herbaceous plant of the dandelion family asteraceae usually with bright blue flowers rarely white or pink. The plant producing those flowers is cichorium intybus or common chicory the name chicory is also sometimes used for another related plant c. Chicory flowers from july until october.
1 to 2 inch blue dandelion type flowers with darker blue stamens in a widely spaced spike.
There are two rows of involucral bracts the inner are longer and erect the outer are shorter and spreading. Chicory is a perennial shrubby herb with stiff angular branches. Flowerheads emerge all along the stems with light blue or white occasionally pink strap shaped ray florets that are toothed at end. Common chicory cichorium intybus is a somewhat woody perennial herbaceous plant of the dandelion family usually with bright blue flowers rarely white or pink.
