Cichorium intybusL.

chicory

WFO wfo-0000080671 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h

Cichorium intybus, photographed by Pete Bradshaw
fig. a Pete Bradshaw, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-06-09 / obs. 204824693
Cichorium intybus, photographed by Ульяна Лалак
fig. b Ульяна Лалак, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 205677972
Cichorium intybus, photographed by Matthew Gerke
fig. c Matthew Gerke, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 204616568
Cichorium intybus, photographed by Daria
fig. d Daria, CC0 1.0 / obs. 204887958
Cichorium intybus, photographed by Daria
fig. e Daria, CC0 1.0 / obs. 204890417
Cichorium intybus, photographed by Paul Mnich
fig. f Paul Mnich, CC0 1.0 / obs. 204397724
Cichorium intybus, photographed by Matthew Gerke
fig. g Matthew Gerke, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 205744143
Cichorium intybus, photographed by Pete Bradshaw
fig. h Pete Bradshaw, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 204423118

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Flowering n = 17,961 observations

Peak flowering in Jul, from 17,961 community-annotated observations worldwide. This is a global aggregate, not a forecast for your garden: the same species flowers on different dates in different hemispheres, and citizen-science records cluster near cities, at weekends, and in spring. Where a species has fewer than 30 annotated records we do not draw this chart at all.

Also published as 48 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

  • Cichorium balearicum Porta
  • Cichorium byzantinum Clem.
  • Cichorium byzantinum Clementi
  • Cichorium caeruleum Gilib.
  • Cichorium casnia C.B.Clarke
  • Cichorium cicorea Dumort.
  • Cichorium commune Pall.
  • Cichorium cosnia Buch.-Ham.
  • Cichorium divaricatum Heldr. ex Nyman
  • Cichorium glabratum C.Presl
  • Cichorium glaucum Hoffmanns. & Link
  • Cichorium hirsutum Gren.
  • Cichorium illyricum Borb.
  • Cichorium intybus f. alba Farw.
  • Cichorium intybus f. crispum Makino
  • Cichorium intybus f. intybus
  • Cichorium intybus f. rubicunda Farw.
  • Cichorium intybus f. sativum Bisch.
  • Cichorium intybus f. sylvestre Bisch.
  • Cichorium intybus subsp. balearica (Porta) Gand.
  • Cichorium intybus subsp. balearicum (Porta) Gand.
  • Cichorium intybus subsp. foliosum (Hegi) Janch.
  • Cichorium intybus subsp. glabratum (C.Presl) Wagenitz & U.Bedarff
  • Cichorium intybus subsp. glabratum (C.Presl) Arcang.

and 24 more.

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.

We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice, no toxicity claim and no native range, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite.