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Cichorium intybus
thumb|Botanical illustration (1885)
Cichorium
Cichorium is a genus of plants in the tribe Cichorieae within the family Asteraceae. The genus includes two cultivated species commonly known as chicory or endive, plus several wild species.
Cichorium endivia
species of plant
Scorzonera
thumb|right|Scorzonera humilis
Lapsana communis
species of plant
Picris
Picris (oxtongues) is a genus of flowering plants in the family Asteraceae described as a genus by Linnaeus in 1753.
Chondrilla
genus of plants
Leontodon hispidus
species of plant
Picris hieracioides
species of plant
Cicerbita alpina
species of plant
Chondrilla juncea
species of plant
Cicerbita
Cicerbita is a genus of flowering plants in the family Asteraceae, native to Asia and Europe. They are known commonly as blue sow thistles. The word Cicerbita is from the Italian, meaning "chickory-like", a comparison to Cichorium, the chicory genus.
Scorzonera humilis
species of plant
Lapsana
Lapsana is a genus of flowering plants in the family Asteraceae. It is native to Europe and northern Asia. Nipplewort is a common name for plants in this genus.
Helminthotheca echioides
species of plant
Prenanthes
Prenanthes is a genus of plant in the family Asteraceae, often referred to as rattlesnake root.
Gundelia
Gundelia or tumble thistle is a low to high () thistle-like perennial herbaceous plant with latex, spiny compound inflorescences, reminiscent of teasles and eryngos, that contain cream, yellow, greenish, pink, purple or redish-purple disk florets. It is assigned to the family Asteraceae. The flowers can be found from February to May. The stems of this plant dry-out when the seeds are ripe and break free from the underground root, and are then blown away like a tumbleweed, thus spreading the seeds effectively over large areas with little standing vegetation.
radicchio
Radicchio is a perennial cultivated form of leaf chicory (Cichorium intybus, Asteraceae), commonly used in Italian cuisine. It is grown as a leaf vegetable and usually has colourful, white-veined red leaves that form a head. Radicchio has a bitter and spicy taste that mellows if it is grilled or roasted.
Cichorieae
The Cichorieae (also called Lactuceae) are a tribe in the plant family Asteraceae that includes 93 genera, more than 1,600 sexually reproductive species and more than 7,000 apomictic species. They are found primarily in temperate regions of the Eastern Hemisphere. Cichorieae all have milky latex and flowerheads that only contain one type of floret. The genera Gundelia and Warionia only have disk florets, while all other genera only have ligulate florets. The genera that contain most species are Taraxacum (Crepidinae subtribe) with about 1,600 apomictic species, Hieracium with about 770 sexuall
Urospermum
Urospermum, or prickly goldenfleece, is a small genus of flowering plants in the dandelion tribe within the daisy family.
Catananche
Catananche is a genus of flowering plants in the family Asteraceae. It is native to dry meadows in the Mediterranean region.
Tolpis
Tolpis is a genus of flowering plants in the tribe Cichorieae within the family Asteraceae. It is native to Africa, Southern Europe, the Middle East and Macaronesia. Many species are limited to the Canary Islands.
Scolymus
Scolymus is a genus of annual, biennial or perennial, herbaceous plants that is assigned to the family Asteraceae, and can be found in Macaronesia, around the Mediterranean, and in the Middle East. All species are spiny, thistle-like in appearance, with flowerheads that consist of yellow (rarely orange or white) ligulate florets, and canals that contain latex. It is sometimes called golden thistle or oyster thistle, and is known as سكوليمس (skwlyms) in Arabic and scolyme in French.
Scolymus hispanicus
species of plant
Andryala
Andryala is a genus of flowering plants in the family Asteraceae. It is native to Europe, North Africa, and the Middle East.
Koelpinia
Koelpinia is a genus of flowering plants in the family Asteraceae.
Urospermum picroides
species of plant
Ixeris
Ixeris is a genus of Asian flowering plants in the family Asteraceae.
Reichardia
Reichardia is a genus of plants in the tribe Cichorieae within the family Asteraceae native to the Mediterranean and western Asia. In Crete, Greece the leaves and tender shoots of a variety of Reichardia picroides called ' () are eaten raw, boiled, cooked in steam or browned with olive oil by the locals. Brighteyes''' is a common name for plants in this genus.
Scorzoneroides autumnalis
species of plant
Belgian endive
Variety of cultivated leaf chicory
Hedypnois
Hedypnois is a genus of flowering plants in the family Asteraceae.
Helminthotheca
Helminthotheca (commonly called ox-tongue) is a genus in the tribe Cichorieae of the family Asteraceae. Helminthotheca is closely related to the genus Picris, both within the Hypochaeridinae subtribe.
Acanthocephalus
genus of plants
Urospermum dalechampii
species of plant
Catananche caerulea
species of plant
Garhadiolus
Garhadiolus is a genus of Asian plants in the tribe Cichorieae within the family Asteraceae.
Rafinesquia
Rafinesquia, commonly known as plumeseed, is a genus of flowering plants in the family Asteraceae, native to the western United States and northwestern Mexico.
Rhagadiolus
Rhagadiolus is a genus of plants in the tribe Cichorieae within the family Asteraceae, native to the Mediterranean region of southern Europe, northern Africa, and the Middle East.
Notoseris
Notoseris is a genus of Asian flowering plants in the tribe Cichorieae within the family Asteraceae. The plants are native to Asia, primarily China.
Tolpis barbata
species of plant
Paraprenanthes
Paraprenanthes is a genus of East Asian plants in the tribe Cichorieae within the family Asteraceae, most of the species found only in China.
Scorzoneroides
thumb|left|Scorzoneroides montana subsp. montana
Faberia
Faberia is a genus of Chinese flowering plants in the family Asteraceae.
Andryala integrifolia
species of plant
Leontodon saxatilis
species of plant
Ixeridium
Ixeridium is a genus of Asian flowering plants in the family Asteraceae.
Schlagintweitia
Schlagintweitia is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Asteraceae.
Gundelia tournefortii
species of thistle plant
Willemetia
Willemetia is a genus of flowering plants in the family Asteraceae. It is native to Europe, Iran and the Caucasus.
Hololeion
Hololeion is a genus of East Asian flowering plants in the family Asteraceae. It is native to Japan, Korea, China, and the Russian Far East.
Hymenonema
Hymenonema is a genus of flowering plants in the family Asteraceae endemic to Greece. On each of the single or few stems, the species have one to three flowerheads consisting of yellow or yolk yellow ligulate florets, scaly pappus, greyish, pinnately segmented leaves in a basal rosette, and few smaller leaves on the 20–70 cm high stems. It contains two species: Hymenonema graecum, that is known from the Cyclades, and Hymenonema laconicum, which occurs in the central and south-eastern Peloponnesos.
Arnoseris
Arnoseris is a monotypic genus of flowering plants in the family Asteraceae.
Prenanthes purpurea
species of plant
Epilasia
Epilasia is a genus of flowering plants in the family Asteraceae.
Dubyaea
Dubyaea is a genus of Asian flowering plants in the family Asteraceae, native to the Himalayas, Tibet, Myanmar, and south-central China.
Nabalus
Nabalus is a genus of Asian and North American flowering plants in the tribe Cichorieae within the family Asteraceae.
Lapsanastrum
Lapsanastrum is a genus of flowering plants in the family Asteraceae, native to East Asia (China, Korea, Japan).
Scolymus maculatus
species of plant
Scorzonera laciniata
species of plant