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chicories and endives
Cichorium
Cichorium is a genus of plants in the tribe Cichorieae within the family Asteraceae. The genus includes two cultivated species commonly known as chicory or endive, plus several wild species.
Common chicory (Cichorium intybus) is a bushy perennial herb with blue or lavender (or, rarely, white or pink) flowers. It grows as a wild plant on roadsides in its native Europe, and in North America, where it has become naturalized. It is grown for its leaves, when it is known as leaf chicory, endive, radicchio, Belgian endive, French endive, or witloof. Other varieties are grown for their roots, which are used as a coffee substitute, similar to dandelion coffee.
7 branches of this genus, most-observed first
chicory
speciesCichorium intybus
Endive
speciesCichorium endivia
Wild Endive
speciesCichorium pumilum
Spiny Chicory
speciesCichorium spinosum
Cichorium bottae
speciesCichorium bottae
Cichorium calvum
speciesCichorium calvum
Cichorium glandulosum
speciesCichorium glandulosum
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
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In the old herbals & bestiaries
Description of Less Known and Rare Plants
Fabio Colonna · 1616 · p.246
Precursor to the Botanical Theatre
Caspar Bauhin · 1620 · p.69
Herbarius
1485 · p.76
Commentaries on the Six Books of Pedanius Dioscorides on Medical Matter
Pietro Andrea Mattioli · 1565 · p.672
History of Rare Plants
Carolus Clusius · 1601 · p.520
Latin Herbal with German Synonyms
1484 · p.105
Herbarius latinus (with French synonyms)
1486 · p.77
Ortus sanitatis
1491 · p.112
Ortus sanitatis
1491 · p.112
The Book of Health: The Art of Distillation
Brunschwig, Hieronymus · 1505 · p.255
The Great Herbary with all the figures of the herbs
1532 · p.97
History of Plants in Four Books
Valerius Cordus · 1561 · p.303
In the stacks
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 52914.