FFF19 - A COMMON "WEED"

Common chicory, Cichorium intybus, is a somewhat woody, perennial herbaceous plant usually with bright blue flowers, rarely white or pink. 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, and in North America and Australia, where it has become naturalised. "Chicory" is also the common name in the United States for curly endive (Cichorium endivia); these two closely related species are often confused.

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Weeds and Wild Flowers

Continued from my walk by the fishing hole....

This is a weed. We see them everywhere. They show up in lawns and we mow them down.
A type of dandelion?



This tiny wild flower is smaller than a dime.. graceful and delicate.

Barbed Wire and Weeds

I tried some artsy stuff on this one. This is supposed to look like brush strokes.

Star Weed?

I don't know what this is. It grows along one edge of my vegi garden but its nothing we've planted. Its viney and wants to wrap around my tomotoes. It must be a weed but its a pretty one.