Amaranthaceae
471 edible species
Includes amaranth grains, spinach relatives, and quinoa; nutritious leafy greens and seeds.
Mountain spinach, Garden orache, Sea Purslane
Edible: Leaves, Seeds, Vegetable
Hollyleaf saltbush
Edible: Leaves
Sorrel leaf orach
Edible: Leaves, Seeds
Quail bush
Edible: Leaves, Seeds, Stems
Edible: Leaves
Grassleaf orache
Edible: Leaves
Maximowicz's saltbush, Hai bin li
Edible: Leaves, Seeds
Edible: Leaves
Mueller’s saltbush
Edible: Leaves
Old man saltbush
Edible: Leaves, Seeds
Basin Saltbush, Fourwing Saltbush, Gardner's Saltbush, Nuttall's Saltbush, Sickle Saltbush
Edible: Leaves, Seeds
Mound Saltbrush
Marsh saltbush
Edible: Leaves
Common Orache, Spreading orach
Edible: Leaves, Seeds, Vegetable
All scale
Edible: Seeds
Sea purslane
Edible: Leaves
Powell’s saltweed
Edible: Leaves, Seeds
Spear-leaved orache
Edible: Leaves, Seeds
Hastate orache
Edible: Leaves, Seeds, Vegetable
Pu fu bin li
Edible: Leaves, Vegetable
Tumbling or redscale saltweed
Sack saltbush
Edible: Leaves, Seeds
Fat Hen, Sjajna loboda
Edible: Leaves, Vegetable
Australian saltbush, Creeping saltbush
Edible: Fruit, Leaves
Bractscale
Edible: Leaves, Seeds
Kidney or Mallee saltbush
Edible: Seeds
Edible: Leaves, Seeds
Orache
Edible: Leaves, Seeds, Ashes
Edible: Leaves
Tatarian Orache
Edible: Leaves, Seeds
Torrey’s Saltbrush
Wedgescale saltbush
Edible: Leaves, Seeds
Bladder saltbush
Edible: Seeds, Leaves
Wright's saltbush
Edible: Leaves, Seeds
Oats
Edible: Seed
Upright axyris
Edible: Leaves, Vegetable
Clumping Bamboo
Edible: Stem
Burmese bamboo, Jama Betua
Edible: Shoots
Edible: Leaves, Flowers
Edible: Leaves ?
Summer Cypress, Burningbush
Edible: Leaves, Seed
American Sloughgrass
Edible: Root
Wild swiss chard
Edible: Root, Leaves
Edible: Leaves
Edible: Leaves, Root
Beetroot
Edible: Roots, Leaves, Vegetable
Sugar Beet
Edible: Leaves, Root
Spinach Beet
Edible: Leaves, Stem
Beetroot
Edible: Leaves, Root
Swiss Chard
Edible: Leaves, Stem
Sea Beet
Edible: Leaves
Silver beet
Edible: Leaves, Vegetable
Sicilian broad-rib beet, Swiss chard
Edible: Leaves
Sea beet
Edible: Leaves
Sugarbeet
Edible: Sugar - roots, Spice, Flavour, Leaves
Garden beet
Edible: Root, Leaves
Edible: Leaves, Root
Beetroot
Edible: Root
Edible: Leaves
Samphire
Edible: Leaves, Vegetable
Himalayan bosea
Edible: Shoots, Leaves, Fruit
Edible: Leaves
Soft Brome
Edible: Seeds - oil
Water WhirlGrass
Lagos spinach, Quail grass, Cock’s comb
Edible: Leaves, Seeds - oil, Vegetable, Flowers, Tea
Lagos Spinach, Common Cockscomb
Edible: Leaves, Oil, Shoots
Edible: Leaves
Edible: Leaves
Cockscomb
Edible: Leaves
Edible: Leaves
Edible: Leaves
Edible: Leaves, Vegetable
Silver spinach
Edible: Leaves, Flowers, Seeds, Vegetable
Edible: Leaves
Tinwa Bamboo
Edible: Shoots, Stem
False chaff flower, Haitian basket vine
Edible: Leaves
Nettleleaf Goosefoot, Rounded-leaf fat hen
Edible: Leaves, Seeds, Vegetable, Flavouring
Jian tou ye li
Edible: Leaves, Seeds
Fat hen, Lamb’s quarters
Edible: Leaves, Seeds, Sprouts, Flowers, Vegetable, Tea, Root
Edible: Leaves
Mexican Tea. Epazote.
Edible: Leaves, Seed
Wormseed
Edible: Leaves, Seed
Blue bush, Golden Goosefoot, Queensland bluebush
Edible: Leaves, Seeds, Shoots
Berlandier’s lamb’s quarters
Edible: Leaves, Seeds
Bush's Goosefoot
Edible: Leaves, Seeds
Good King Henry
Edible: Leaves, Seeds, Root, Flowers, Vegetable
Sticky goosefoot
Edible: Leaves, Seeds
Edible: Leaves, Vegetable
Bush's goosefoot
Edible: Leaves, Seed
California goosefoot
Edible: Leaves, Seeds
Edible: Leaves, Seed
Strawberry blite, Elite, Strawberry spinach, Beetberry
Edible: Fruit, Leaves, Seeds
Ridged goosefoot
Edible: Seeds, Leaves
Edible: Flowers, Seeds
Crested Goosefoot
Edible: Leaves, Seed