Chicory Flower Plant

This is a picture of the common chicory flower, a member of the daisy family Asteraceae. The flower is characterized by light blueish purple petals and goes by several other nicknames: blue daisy, blue dandelion, blue sailors, blue weed, bunk, coffeeweed, cornflower, hendibeh, horseweed, ragged sailors, succory, wild bachelor’s buttons, and wild endive.nnThe plant is an edible herbaceous perennial and the leaves and chircory root has many medicinal and culinary uses.nnThis is a great photo to use for any kind of media about gardening, herbs, and flowering plants. You could use it in your blog posts, in YouTube videos, books and more!nnOf course, it would also be a great image to use for collage, mixed media art, scrapbooking, and everything else!