you dont have to, just let them be, much cooler than a plain boring lawn
Spirited_Try_7456
If you have 1 chicory, you’ll have 10 next year (or even this year) and it’ll keep populating. If you cut while about to bloom, the cut part will still bloom after. They’re hard to pull due to huge tap roots and mowing doesn’t keep them from coming back. I have a desert chicory too. It has a single yellow flower and isn’t as aggressive as this chicory.
hdaledazzler
Mow around them! You’ve got a nice native plant patch starting itself up.
Edit: not native as corrected! Get some blue asters that are then but still much better to let the chicory grow I think than a lawn
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mickeyamf
I hate mowing
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DerekTheComedian
Chicory. Non native but naturalized. They are everywhere, so mowing the ones in your yard isnt hurting the pollinators any.
aarakocra-druid
See if any of them have seed pods. You could plant them in a container while still controlling the rest of these non-native (to the US) beauties
Radiant_Medium_1439
I love chicory
wassup_you_NERD
Butterflies love chickory! Maybe keep just a strip of them?
tomatogirl100
Cosmos
cactiguy67
My chicory isn’t spreading fast at all, only 5 or 6 plants in three years. But I’ve had the first plant I grew the whole time, transplanted from a flat of “red dandelion” microgreens. Here in Texas, I get comments on my desert chicory a lot. People wanting to know “what is that beautiful plant!?” I love the look on their face when I tell them it’s a dandelion
GerrySch
Aster
SuddenAct8072
it makes a good coffee substitute
Hunter_Wild
Chicory, it’s invasive, so mow away!
hardFraughtBattle
I know they’re chicory, but as a kid I was told the flowers were called “bachelor buttons” so that’s what I think of first.
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Chicory. They’re so cute!
That would be chicory
Chicory
https://gobotany.nativeplanttrust.org/species/cichorium/intybus/
you dont have to, just let them be, much cooler than a plain boring lawn
If you have 1 chicory, you’ll have 10 next year (or even this year) and it’ll keep populating. If you cut while about to bloom, the cut part will still bloom after. They’re hard to pull due to huge tap roots and mowing doesn’t keep them from coming back. I have a desert chicory too. It has a single yellow flower and isn’t as aggressive as this chicory.
Mow around them! You’ve got a nice native plant patch starting itself up.
Edit: not native as corrected! Get some blue asters that are then but still much better to let the chicory grow I think than a lawn
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I hate mowing
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Chicory. Non native but naturalized. They are everywhere, so mowing the ones in your yard isnt hurting the pollinators any.
See if any of them have seed pods. You could plant them in a container while still controlling the rest of these non-native (to the US) beauties
I love chicory
Butterflies love chickory! Maybe keep just a strip of them?
Cosmos
My chicory isn’t spreading fast at all, only 5 or 6 plants in three years. But I’ve had the first plant I grew the whole time, transplanted from a flat of “red dandelion” microgreens. Here in Texas, I get comments on my desert chicory a lot. People wanting to know “what is that beautiful plant!?” I love the look on their face when I tell them it’s a dandelion
Aster
it makes a good coffee substitute
Chicory, it’s invasive, so mow away!
I know they’re chicory, but as a kid I was told the flowers were called “bachelor buttons” so that’s what I think of first.