Chicory Flower Edible. Toss them in a salad but before doing so blanch them. Cichorium intybus is the variety most often grown for its roots and the long-lived type of chicory.
If you decide to plant chicory in your garden youll want to scope out different chicory plant varieties. Many varieties are cultivated for salad leaves chicons or roots which are baked ground and used as a coffee substitute and food additive. Common chicory is a somewhat woody perennial herbaceous plant of the daisy family Asteraceae usually with bright blue flowers rarely white or pink.
The flower buds can be pickled and the roots boiled and eaten though that may take several changes of water.
Now that you know that eating chicory plants is okay and readily available the question is how to use chicory. 16102020 Chicory Cichorium Intybus Edible Uses of Chicory. Toss them in a salad but before doing so blanch them. Chicory is a perennial herbaceous plant with a blue or lavender flower.