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Chicory Flowers
Chicory plant
Chicory flower
These were growing near Moraga California near a cattle ranch corral.
We wondered if the presence of cattle manure encouraged them.
From Wikipedia:
Common chicory, Cichorium intybus, is a bushy perennial herbaceous plant with
blue, lavender, or occasionally white flowers. 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 grown as a forage crop for livestock. It lives as a wild plant on roadsides
in its native Europe, and in North America and Australia, where it has become naturalized.
Chicory plant
Chicory flower
These were growing near Moraga California near a cattle ranch corral.
We wondered if the presence of cattle manure encouraged them.
From Wikipedia:
Common chicory, Cichorium intybus, is a bushy perennial herbaceous plant with
blue, lavender, or occasionally white flowers. 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 grown as a forage crop for livestock. It lives as a wild plant on roadsides
in its native Europe, and in North America and Australia, where it has become naturalized.
