In rural areas, it is also called chicory, sowthistle, cassney and wrinkled chicory.

perennial herb, 4-1 cm tall. The stems are erect, solitary, branched or extremely branched, all the stems and branches are green, ribbed, and covered with extremely sparse long and curved coarse hairs or bristles or almost glabrous.

The basal leaves are rosette-shaped, survive at flowering, and are oblanceolate and oblong, including petioles with a tapering base, with a total length of 15-34 cm and a width of 2-4 cm. The base has a pterygoid stalk, and the big head is pinnately divided or pinnately divided or undivided with sparse sharp serrations at the edge.

Chicory growing environment

Born in coastal wasteland, riverside, ditch or hillside. This species is widely distributed in Europe, Asia and North Africa. Born in coastal wasteland, riverside, ditch or hillside.

It is distributed in Beijing (Baihua Mountain), Heilongjiang (Raohe), Liaoning (Dalian), Shanxi (Fenyang), Shaanxi (Xi 'an, Meixian and Zhouzhi), Xinjiang (Altay, Habahe, Fuhai, Tacheng, Tori, Yumin, Bole, Shawan, Manas, Urumqi, Miquan and Yining.