Common chicory is a somewhat woody, perennial herbaceous plant usually with bright blue 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,
in North America and Australia, where it has become naturalized.


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