Is Chicory Flower Edible. Chicory is mainly grown as an edible plant. The flower buds can be pickled and the roots boiled and eaten though that may take several changes of water.
The flower buds can be pickled and the roots boiled and eaten though that may take several changes of water. Chicory is a perennial herbaceous plant with a blue or lavender flower. It has unlobed pointed leaves clustered at the base of a tough grooved and more or less hairy stem and some leaves on the stem.
Toss them in a salad but before doing so blanch them.
01032021 Chicory is a common roadside weed that can be found throughout North America but theres more to the story than that. Cardoon stems benefit from being wrapped in newspaper or plastic several weeks before harvesting to blanch. It can also be used interchangeably with dandelion greens according to Katie Letcher Lyle in The Complete Guide to Edible Wild Plants Mushrooms Fruits and Nuts 2010 ed a book I like for its traditional recipes and lore. Its leaves are tastiest in the spring and autumn as the summer heat tends to make them taste a little bitter but they are still edible.