Chicory
New Tripoli PA
2013

Common chicory, also known as blue daisy, blue dandelion, blue sailors, blue weed, bunk, coffeeweed, cornflower, horseweed, ragged sailors, succory, wild bachelor's buttons and wild endive is native to Europe and Asia but was introduced into the eastern U.S. in the early 1700s and has since spread across the continent.

Its 3- to 4-foot-tall stems interspersed with bright blue, 1.5- to 2-inch-diameter flowers are found on disturbed soils across Pennsylvania. All parts of the plant are edible, and the roots can be dried and ground into a coffee substitute.