Hi: This reference may be of some help to you,it is from "Plants for Beekeeping in Canada and the northern USA, by Jane Ramsay, published 1987 by IBRA p.43 : "Cichorium intybus L. common chicory, blue daisy, blue sailors, wild succory... Value for honey: HP3 (honey potential=51-100kg/ha); plants may close up in the afternoons and so yields N in the mornings only; surplus H has been obtained where this is grown on a field scale for roots or seeds (e.g.. England and Michigan); one of the most attractive plants to bees. Honey: is yellowish-green in colour; flavour is pleasant and has a coffee-chicory taste Notes: cultivated as a crop for roots or green fodder in some countries, but is a noxious weed in some provinces of Canada." Frank C. Pellett, American Honey Plants ,(1977, Dadant & Sons) has a similar write-up, p. 105. Keith