This is a list of plants that have a culinary role as vegetables. "Vegetable" can be used in several senses, including culinary, botanical and legal. This list includes fruit vegetables such as cucumbers, eggplants, okra, peppers, pumpkins, squash and tomatoes. It does not include herbs, spices, cereals, culinary fruits, culinary nuts, edible fungi.

Legal vegetables are defined for regulatory, tax and other purposes. An example would include the tomato, which is botanically a berry (fruit), but culinarily a vegetable according to the United States.

thumb|[[Bok choy or Chinese cabbage in flower]]

Leafy and salad vegetables

thumb|Garden Cress

thumb|Iceberg lettuce field in northern [[Santa Barbara County.]]

thumb|Spinach in flower

thumb|Miner's lettuce

Fruit vegetables

thumb|[[Pumpkins]]

Chili peppers

Edible flowers

thumb|upright|[[Calabaza flowers]]

Podded vegetables

240px|right|thumb|"Common bean", "kidney bean", "haricot bean", "pinto bean", "navy bean", and "green bean" are all varieties of the [[species Phaseolus vulgaris.]]

thumb|right|200px|Varieties of soybeans are used for many purposes.

Bulb and stem vegetables

thumb|230px|right|Garlic bulbs and individual cloves, one peeled.

Root and tuberous vegetables

thumb|right|250px|[[Carrots come in a variety of shapes, sizes and colors.]]

thumb|250px|The [[potato is one of the world's staple foods.]]

Sea vegetables

thumb|[[Caulerpa is a genus of edible seaweed.]]

See also

  • Herbs
  • Vegetable juice
  • List of culinary fruits
  • List of leaf vegetables
  • List of vegetable dishes
  • List of foods
  • Seed

References

  • Lists of vegetables