Chicory
कासनीகாசினிக்கீரைചിക്കറി
Cichorium intybus L.
- light
- Full sun
- water
- Medium
- tall
- 1.1 m
- wide
- 53 cm
Asteraceae
Also called Chickory, Bunk, Blue weed, Wild chicory, Wild chickory
When it flowers
Not known yet in the tropics: too few flowering observations to read a season from.
Read from iNaturalist photographs of it in flower. A month counts at 50% of the best month's flowering share (smoothed over three months) and 10% of its flowering count, from at least 100 flowering observations in the band.
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Something wrong with it?About it
- Grows as
- PerennialKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- TemperateKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- Europe to C. Asia and W. Himalaya, Macaronesia to N. AfricaKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Light
- Full sun (6 h or more)Read from NC State Extension, one source
- Height
- 91 cm to 1.2 mRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Spread
- 46 cm to 61 cmRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Water
- Average: moist, well drainedRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Flowers
- BlueRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Coldest it survives
- -40 °C (USDA zone 3a)Read from NC State Extension, one source
Not known yet: heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (12)
- Italian
- Cicoria comune
- German
- Gemeine Wegwarte, Gewöhnliche Wegwarte
- Spanish
- Achicoria
- Portuguese
- chicória, almeirão
- root
- CICINT, Ysgellog, Kaffifífill
- Finnish
- sikuri
- Catalan
- xicoira, Cama-roja
- Russian
- Цикорий обыкновенный
- Belarusian
- Цыкорыя звычайная
- Dutch
- wilde cichorei, Wilde cichorei
- Croatian
- Cikorija
- Galician
- chicoria
Where this comes from
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC0-1.0 (observation counts)
- Wikidata, read 2026-10-26, CC0-1.0
- Kew's checklist, read 2026-10-24, CC-BY-4.0
- NC State Extension, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-25, Public domain
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC0
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC0
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC0
- 3D model: Cichorium intybus (built for Vanagrha) by Vanagrha, own
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