Chicory – Roadside Plant in Country and City

I remember chicory as a common flower of vacant lots and streetside  hellstrips of my urban childhood. It seems odd to me that I see it so rarely now that I live in the country where my town  has lots of dirt roads, and where even the paved roads are edged by sandy soil and woodlands or fields. I've always loved the  blue flowers of chicory, and I did know that the roots were sometimes dried and ground and…