Blue Sailors: Bunk:

Cichorium Intybus. Composite Family. July - Oct.

Found in fields, waste places, along roadsides. Newfoundland to Minnesota and southward. Naturalized from Europe.

Flower-Heads

Blue, violet-blue, lavender, rays finely toothed on the tips; flowers borne at intervals on branching stems 1 - 3 feet high.

Leaves

Oblong or lance-shaped, coarsely toothed, partly clasping.

Chicory.