Common chicory, otherwise known by its Latin name as Cichorium intybus, is in full bloom around the Hicksville landscape. This bluish wildflower, which is a naturalized plant from Europe, can be found ...

James Churchill shares his edible plant recipes for foraged wild mint, catnip, blackberries, and chicory plant uses. Summer is moving along swiftly here in Wisconsin. Chicory, along the roadsides, is ...

Crop species are known to hybridize spontaneously with wild relatives, but few studies have characterized the performance of hybrids at various genealogies, life stages and environments. A group of ...

The bright blue flowers of chicory filling our meadows and lining our roadsides are still more than a month away, probably a couple months, but the young leaves of the plant are already poking up ...

There are many wondrous shades of blue displayed by our native wildflowers (ranging from the electric blue of some hepaticas in early spring to the velvety tall bellflower in mid-summer to the soft ...

Puccia, a sandwich bread made from a simple pizza dough, forms the base of this soup. The recipe is in “Alpine Cooking” on Page 58, but if you don’t have time to commit to baking bread, you can ...

Chicory is my new favorite wild plant. You’d call it a wildflower if it was growing on Table Mountain, but in the garden area it’s a weed. Last year, I became enamored by the light-blue, slightly ...