{"id":177,"date":"2012-06-21T14:49:10","date_gmt":"2012-06-21T18:49:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/indianaplants\/?p=177"},"modified":"2012-06-21T14:49:10","modified_gmt":"2012-06-21T18:49:10","slug":"chicory-a-great-roadside-wildflower","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/indianaplants\/2012\/06\/21\/chicory-a-great-roadside-wildflower\/","title":{"rendered":"Chicory – a great roadside wildflower"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Chicory flowers - photo by Marcia Moore<\/p><\/div>\n

Chicory (Cichorium intybus<\/em>) is a striking wildflower on display this month.\u00a0 It is a common roadside weed that grows so densely sometimes that it looks as if it was planted.\u00a0<\/p>\n

There is a stretch of 38th<\/sup> St. near the parking area by the basketball sculpture at the Art and Nature Park that really looks this way.\u00a0 Maybe the early spring and cities cutting back on mowing schedules has led to the increased visibility of Chicory this year.\u00a0 It often grows with Queen Anne\u2019s lace, a really nice roadside combination.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Chicory flowering head - photo by Marcia Moore<\/p><\/div>\n

It has long been one of my favorite wildflowers\/weeds.\u00a0 A member of the sunflower family, it has composite flowering heads that are all ray flowers, no disc flowers.\u00a0 Each head is only open for a day.\u00a0 The color is a rare light purple\/blue – even the anthers and pollen.\u00a0 Plants are perennials with a milky sap.<\/p>\n

This plant is introduced to our area. Chicory is found in cities all over the globe, probably due to its usefulness as a coffee substitute or extender and as forage for livestock.\u00a0 Dried roots are still used in coffee in New Orleans.\u00a0 C. intybus<\/em> is sometimes grown as a salad green.\u00a0 Curly endive is a related species of Cichorium<\/em>.<\/p>\n

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Chicory along a roadside - photo by Marcia Morre<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Chicory (Cichorium intybus) is a striking wildflower on display this month.\u00a0 It is a common roadside weed that grows so densely sometimes that it looks as if it was planted.\u00a0 There is a stretch of 38th St. near the parking … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":679,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/indianaplants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/indianaplants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/indianaplants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/indianaplants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/679"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/indianaplants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=177"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/indianaplants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":184,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/indianaplants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177\/revisions\/184"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/indianaplants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/indianaplants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/indianaplants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}