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|accepted_name=Cichorium
|accepted_authority=Linnaeus
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Sp. Pl.
|place=2: 813. 1753
|year=1753
}}, {{Treatment/Publication
|title=Gen. Pl. ed.
|place=5, 354. 1754
|year=1754
}}
|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Asteraceae;Asteraceae tribe Cichorieae;Cichorium
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Asteraceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>tribe</small>[[Asteraceae tribe Cichorieae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Cichorium]]</div></div>
|etymology=Ancient Arabic name
|volume=Volume 19
|mention_page=page 218
|treatment_page=page 221
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Perennials </b>[annuals, biennials], [2–]10–120+ cm; taprooted. <b>Stems</b> usually 1, erect, branched distally or throughout, setose or hispid to pilose, or glabrous. <b>Leaves</b> basal and cauline; usually sessile; basal blades oblanceolate to lance-linear, margins usually runcinate-pinnate to dentate, rarely entire; cauline similar, smaller, margins dentate or entire. <b>Heads</b> mostly in glomerules (axillary and nearly sessile), some borne singly (on ± elongate peduncles). <b>Peduncles</b> (dimorphic: most 0–2 mm, some 12–85+ mm): the longer often slightly inflated distally, not bracteate. <b>Calyculi</b> 0 (or interpreted as outer phyllaries). <b>Involucres</b> ± cylindric, 3–5+ mm diam. <b>Phyllaries</b> 10–15+ in 2+ series, lance-ovate to lanceolate or linear, unequal, margins little, if at all, scarious, apices obtuse to acute. <b>Receptacles</b> flat, pitted, ± hispid, usually epaleate. <b>Florets</b> 8–25+; corollas usually blue [purple], sometimes pink or white. <b>Cypselae</b> brownish, ± prismatic (3–5-angled), not beaked, faces smooth, glabrous; pappi persistent, coroniform (of 40–60+, whitish, subequal, erose scales in 1–2 series). <b>x</b> = 9.</span><!--

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|distribution=Europe;n Africa;Asia;introduced also in South America;Africa;Pacific Old World.
|discussion=<p>Species 6 (1 in the flora).</p><!--
--><p>The salad green known as endive (<i>Cichorium</i> endivia Linnaeus) may sometimes be found as an escape from gardens or agricultural plantings. It differs from <i>C. intybus</i> in having purple corollas, cypselae 1.5–2.5 mm, and pappi 0.6–1+ mm.</p>
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name=Cichorium
|author=John L. Strother
|authority=Linnaeus
|rank=genus
|parent rank=tribe
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Asteraceae
|illustrator=Barbara Alongi
|distribution=Europe;n Africa;Asia;introduced also in South America;Africa;Pacific Old World.
|introduced=true
|reference=None
|publication title=Sp. Pl.;Gen. Pl. ed.
|publication year=1753;1754
|special status=
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|tribe=Asteraceae tribe Cichorieae
|genus=Cichorium
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