BLUE AND PURPLE CROUP 



Succory. Chicory. Blue Sailors 

 Cichbrium intybus. — Family, Composite. Color, bright blue, 

 sometimes purple or pink. Leaves, those on stem oblong or linear, 

 partly clasping, small; these from rool lying on the ground, 

 broader at apex, narrowed into long petioles. Stem, from a 



SUCCORY, chicory. i( ' it horiiun Intybus) 



tap-root, covered with bristly hairs, rigid, branching, i to 3 feet 

 high. Perennials. 1 to 3 heads of flowers on the ends of branches 

 or in the axils of small leaves. 



A showy plant, but often ragged and covered with dust. 

 Rays or "straps" of the flowers conspicuously toothed. 

 Common in waste places, empty lots, and roadsides, around 



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