SUCCORY Synonyms

• any of various herbs of the genus Cardamine, having usually pinnate leaves and racemes of white, pink or purple flowers; cosmopolitan except Antarctic

• widely cultivated herb with leaves valued as salad green; either curly serrated leaves or broad flat ones that are usually blanched

• variety of endive having leaves with irregular frilled edges

• plant of southern and southeastern United States grown for its yellow flowers that can be dried

• an annual Eurasian plant cultivated in North America having showy heads of blue or purple or pink or white flowers

• erect perennial strong-scented with serrate pointed leaves and a loose panicle of yellowish flowers; the eastern United States

• common North American weed with linear leaves and small discoid heads of yellowish flowers; widely naturalized throughout temperate regions; sometimes placed in genus Erigeron

• perennial Old World herb having rayed flower heads with blue florets cultivated for its root and its heads of crisp edible leaves used in salads

• perennial Old World herb having rayed flower heads with blue florets cultivated for its root and its heads of crisp edible leaves used in salads