Amaranthaceae
471 edible species
Includes amaranth grains, spinach relatives, and quinoa; nutritious leafy greens and seeds.
Edible: Roots - drink
Wild cockscomb
Edible: Leaves
Edible: Stem
Edible: Shoots, Stem
Edible: Shoots, Stem
Edible: Shoots, Stem
Bulbous Barley
Edible: Root, Seed
Edible: Seed
Two-Rowed Barley
Edible: Seed
Six-Row Barley, Common barley
Edible: Seed
Edible: Seed
Foxtail Barley, Intermediate barley
Edible: Seed
Egyptian Barley
Edible: Seed
Barley, Common barley
Edible: Seed
Sprat Barley
Edible: Seed
Cogongrass, Japanese Blood Grass
Edible: Flowers, Leaves, Root, Shoots
Juba's bush
Edible: Leaves ?
Edible: Seeds
Edible: Seeds
June Grass, Prairie Junegrass
Edible: Seed
Lyme Grass, Sand ryegrass
Edible: Seed
Giant Wild Rye
Edible: Seed
Volga Wild Rye, Mammoth wildrye
Edible: Oil, Seed, Shoots, Stem
Squaw Grass, Beardless wildrye
Edible: Seed
Perennial Ryegrass, Italian ryegrass, Darnel, Lyme Grass, Terrell Grass, English Ryegrass, Strand Wh
Edible: Seed
Darnel
Edible: Seed
Chariot wheels
Black bluebush, Shrubby bluebush
Edible: Leaves - herb
Spanspek soap bush, Spekbos
Edible: Leaves, Seeds
Berry Bamboo. Mali bamboo
Edible: Fruit, Leaves, Shoots
Weeping rice grass
Edible: Seed
Wood Millet, American milletgrass
Edible: Seed
Pacific Island silvergrass, Giant Eulalia Grass, Giant Chinese Silver Grass
Edible: Flowers
Poverty Weed, Nuttall's povertyweed
Edible: Leaves, Root, Seed
Winter Apple
Edible: Fruit
Turkey Bush
Edible: Fruit
Boobyalla
Edible: Fruit
Ngaio, Ngaio tree, Mousehole Tree
Edible: Fruit
Water Bush
Edible: Fruit
Sugarwood
Edible: Fruit, Manna
Boobialla
Edible: Fruit
Edible: Leaves ?
Edible: Leaves
Perennial Rice
Edible: Seed
Buttered Goosefoot
City Goosefoot, Upright Goosefoot, Shi li, Cucina
Edible: Leaves, Seeds
Savanah Bamboo
Edible: Sap, Seed, Shoots
Edible: Leaves
Edible: Leaves
Edible: Fruit
Fountain grass
Edible: Seed
Edible: Leaves ?
Edible: Leaves ?
Ha-Chiku
Edible: Shoots, Stem
Kurodake
Edible: Shoots, Stem
Violet Bamboo
Edible: Shoots, Stem
Kou-Chiku
Edible: Shoots, Stem
Edible: Shoots, Stem
Edible: Fruit
Himalayan May Apple
Edible: Fruit
Edible: Fruit
Edible: Fruit
Nuttall's prairie parsley
Edible: Leaves
Edible: Leaves
Edible: Herb
Edible: Leaves
Edible: Leaves
Coastal saltbush, Seaberry saltbush
Edible: Leaves, Fruit
Redberried pigweed
Edible: Fruit, Leaves
Climbing Saltbush
Edible: Fruit, Leaves
Fragrant saltbush, Berry saltbush
Edible: Leaves
Hedge Saltbush, Spiny saltbush, Thorny saltbush
Edible: Fruit, Leaves
Arroz bravo
Edible: Seed
Energy Cane
Edible: Sap, Stem
Edible: Leaves
Dwarf glasswort
Edible: Leaves, Oil, Stems
Glasswort, Marsh Samphire, Sea samphire, Saltwort
Edible: Leaves, Stems, Seeds, Seeds - oil, Roots, Vegetable
Slender glasswort
Edible: Seeds
Glasswort, Samphire
Edible: Leaves, Vegetable
Edible: Stems
Edible: Leaves
Chicken Claws
Edible: Leaves, Shoots
Red glasswort
Edible: Leaves
Utah Swampfire
Edible: Leaves
Virginia glasswort, Beach asparagus
Edible: Leaves
Edible: Fruit
Edible: Leaves
Saltwort
Edible: Leaves - juice, Manna
Tumbleweed, Slender Russian Thistle
Edible: Leaves
Edible: Manna, Leaves
Russian thistle, Saltwort, Tumbleweed
Edible: Leaves, Seeds
Prickly Russian thistle
Edible: Leaves, Seeds, Seedlings
Komarov Russian thistle
Edible: Leaves, Seeds, Vegetable
Russian thistle
Edible: Stems
Barilla plant, Opposite-leaf Russian-thistle
Edible: Leaves, Vegetable
Edible: Leaves ?
Prickly Russian Thistle
Edible: Shoots
Glasswort, Shrubby swampfire
Edible: Leaves