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Taxon: Cichorium intybus L.

Genus: Cichorium
Family: Asteraceae (alt. Compositae).
Nomen number: 10543
Place of publication: Sp. pl. 2:813. 1753
Typification: View record from Linnaean Plant Name Typification Project of the Natural History Museum of London.
Name verified on: 20-May-1992 by ARS Systematic Botanists. Last updated: 23-Aug-1994
Species priority site is: North Central Regional PI Station (NC7).
Accessions: 173 in National Plant Germplasm System.
  • all available ) NPGS accessions ) or .
  • all available ) NPGS accessions by country.


SPECIES RESTRICTED BECAUSE STATE NOXIOUS WEED
A declared aquatic or terrestrial noxious weed and/or noxious-weed seed in these U.S. states (see state noxious weed lists), with links to state information or web documents:
CO*.
ªAquatic. *Terrestrial. °In seed.
Link to noxious weed information from Invaders Database System

Common names:

  • Belgium endive   (Source: Food Feed Crops US ) – English
  • chicory   (Source: World Econ Pl ) – English
  • coffee chicory   (Source: Dict Rehm [as C. intybus var. sativum]) – English
  • French endive   (Source: Mansfeld [as C. intybus var. foliosum]) – English
  • succory   (Source: Dict Gard ) – English
  • witloof   (Source: Dict Gard ) – English
  • chicorée   (Source: Mansfeld ) – French
  • chicorée de Bruxelles   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – French
  • endive witloof   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – French
  • Chicorée   (Source: Zander ed14 ) – German
  • Kaffeezichorie   (Source: Zander ed14 ) – German
  • Salatzichorie   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – German
  • Wegwarte   (Source: Mansfeld ) – German
  • Wurzelzichorie   (Source: Zander ed14 ) – German
  • radicchio   (Source: Mansfeld ) – Italian
  • achicoria de Bruselas   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Spanish
  • achicoria de café   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Spanish
  • achicoria de raíz   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Spanish
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Economic importance:

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Distributional range:

      Native:
  • AFRICA
    Northern Africa: Algeria; Tunisia
  • ASIA-TEMPERATE
    Western Asia: Afghanistan; Iran; Iraq; Lebanon; Syria; Turkey
    Caucasus: Armenia; Azerbaijan; Georgia; Russian Federation - Ciscaucasia
    Siberia: Russian Federation - Eastern Siberia, Western Siberia
    Middle Asia: Kazakhstan; Kyrgyzstan; Tajikistan; Turkmenistan; Uzbekistan
    China: China
  • ASIA-TROPICAL
    Indian Subcontinent: India - Himachal Pradesh, Jammu and Kashmir, Madhya Pradesh, Punjab; Pakistan
  • EUROPE
    Northern Europe: Denmark; Sweden; United Kingdom
    Middle Europe: Austria; Belgium; Czechoslovakia; Germany; Hungary; Netherlands; Poland; Switzerland
    Southeastern Europe: Albania; Bulgaria; Former Yugoslavia; Italy; Romania
    Southwestern Europe: France; Portugal; Spain

      Naturalized:
  • widely naturalized elsewhere

References:

  • CIBA-GEIGY, Basel, Switzerland. The CIBA-GEIGY Weed Tables (Weed TabCIBA)
  • Davis, P. H., ed. 1965–1988. Flora of Turkey and the east Aegean islands. (F Turk)
  • Desprez, B. F. et al. 1994. Genetique et amelioration de la chicoree industrielle (Genetics and breeding of industrial chicory). 80(7):47–62. [Comptes Rendus de l'Academie d'Agriculture de France].
  • Duke, J. A. et al. 2002. CRC Handbook of medicinal herbs. (CRC MedHerbs ed2)
  • Encke, F. et al. 1984. Zander: Handwörterbuch der Pflanzennamen, 13. Auflage. (Zander ed13)
  • Encke, F. et al. 1993. Zander: Handwörterbuch der Pflanzennamen, 14. Auflage. (Zander ed14)
  • Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN (FAO). 2010. Ecocrop - on-line resource. (Ecocrop)
  • Gleason, H. A. & A. Cronquist. 1963. Manual of vascular plants of northeastern United States and adjacent Canada. (Glea Cron)
  • Holm, L. et al. 1979. A geographical atlas of world weeds. (Atlas WWeed)
  • Hu, S.-Y. 1970. Compositae of China. (Comp China) 48.
  • Huxley, A., ed. 1992. The new Royal Horticultural Society dictionary of gardening. (Dict Gard)
  • John, P. 1996. In Compositae. 2:111–119.
  • Komarov, V. L. et al., eds. 1934–1964. Flora SSSR. (F USSR)
  • Kunkel, G. 1984. Plants for human consumption. (L Edible Pl)
  • Leung, A. Y. & S. Foster. 1996. Encyclopedia of common natural ingredients used in food, drugs, and cosmetics, ed. 2. (Ency CNatIn)
  • Liberty Hyde Bailey Hortorium. 1976. Hortus third. (Hortus 3)
  • Mansfeld, R. 1959. Die Kulturpflanze, Beiheft 2. (Mansfeld) [= C. intybus var. foliosum].
  • Markle, G. M. et al., eds. 1998. Food and feed crops of the United States, ed. 2. (Food Feed Crops US)
  • McGuffin, M., J. T. Kartesz, A. Y. Leung, & A. O. Tucker. 2000. Herbs of commerce, ed. 2. (Herbs Commerce ed2)
  • Porcher, M. H. et al. Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) - on-line resource. (Pl Names)
  • Radford, A. E. et al., eds. 1980–. Vascular flora of the southeastern United States. (F SE US)
  • Rechinger, K. H., ed. 1963–. Flora iranica. (F Iran)
  • Rehm, S. & G. Espig. 1991. The cultivated plants of the tropics and subtropics. (CultTropS)
  • Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants. (Dict Rehm)
  • Sharma, B. D. et al., eds. 1993–. Flora of India. (F India)
  • Stewart, R. 1972. An annotated catalogue of the vascular plants of West Pakistan and Kashmir. (L Pak)
  • Tutin, T. G. et al., eds. 1964–1980. Flora europaea. (F Eur)
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Synonyms:


Check other databases for Cichorium intybus L.:

  • Flora Europaea: Database of European Plants (ESFEDS)
  • Euro+Med Plantbase: Information Resource for Euro-Mediterranean Plant Diversity
  • TROPICOS: Nomenclatural and Specimen Database of the Missouri Botanical Garden
  • Mansfeld: Mansfeld's World Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops
  • ePIC: Electronic Plant Information Centre of Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
  • AGRICOLA: Article Citation Database or NAL Catalog of USDA's National Agricultural Library
  • Entrez: NCBI's search engine for PubMed citations, GenBank sequences, etc.
    Note: Defaults to a search by genus or species epithet if species binomial not found.

Images:

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  • Check PlantSystematics.org for additional images
  • Google Images Images Note: Be advised that their identity may be inaccurate. Proper identification of a plant may require specialized taxonomic knowledge or comparison with properly documented herbarium material.

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