Poaceae
825 edible species
The grass family containing wheat, rice, corn, barley, and oats—humanity's most important food crops.
Azmelil
Edible: Seeds, Grain, Cereal
Perennial love grass, Wethergrass
Edible: Seeds, Cereal
Edible: Seeds, Cereal
Weeping lovegrass
Edible: Seeds ?
Soft Lovegrass, Wild tef
Edible: Seeds, Cereal
Ox grass, Tough love-grass
Edible: Seeds, Cereal, Roots
Edible: Seeds, Cereal, Grains
Red lovegrass
Edible: Seeds
Narrow leaf Neverfail Grass, Bristly Love Grass, Naked woollybutt, Plain grass, Perennial lovegrass
Edible: Seeds, Cereal
Teff
Edible: Seeds, Cereal
Kerosene grass, Delicate Lovegrass
Edible: Seeds, Cereal
Edible: Seeds, Cereal
Edible: Seeds, Grain, Cereal
Edible: Leaf bud, Shoot
Bearded cupgrass
Edible: Seeds
Tropical cup grass
Edible: Seeds, Cereal
Edible: Seeds, Cereal
Perennial cupgrass, Spring grass
Edible: Seeds, Cereal
Tie mao jian zhu
Edible: Shoots
Wo zhu
Edible: Shoots
Edible: Shoots
Edible: Shoots
Qing tian jian zhu
Edible: Shoots
Kong xin jian zhu
Edible: Shoots
Lu she jian zhu
Edible: Shoots
Mian hua zhu
Edible: Shoots
Jiu long jian zhu
Edible: Shoots
Xue shan jian zhu
Edible: Shoots
Da yao jian zhu
Edible: Shoots
Shen nong jian zhu
Edible: Shoots
Chang yuan qiao jian zhu
Edible: Shoots
Yun long jian zhu
Edible: Shoots
Shao hua jian zhu
Edible: Shoots
Zhou ke jian zhu
Edible: Shoots
Hong ke jian zhu
Edible: Shoots
Guai gun zhu
Edible: Shoots
Giant panda bamboo
Edible: Shoots, Seeds
Xi zhi jian zhu
Edible: Shoots
Edible: Shoots
Bao bi jian zhu
Edible: Shoots
San ba zhu
Edible: Shoots
Yu long shan jian zhu
Edible: Shoots
Edible: Shoots
Cha yu jian zhu
Edible: Shoots
Edible: Seeds, Cereal
Edible: Seeds
Edible: Seeds ?
Sheep’s fescue
Edible: Seeds, Cereal
Cluster fescue
Edible: Seeds
Meadow fescue
Edible: Seeds
Nodding fescue
Edible: Seed
Jung gang duan zhi zhu
Edible: Shoots
White-fringed gigantochloa
Edible: Shoots, Vegetable
Tabashir Bamboo
Edible: Shoots
Giant Black bamboo
Edible: Shoots
Sweet bamboo
Edible: Shoots
Buluh balui
Edible: Shoots
Pingit bamboo
Edible: Shoots
Smooth-shoot gigantochloa
Edible: Shoots
Edible: Shoots
Black fringed giant grass
Edible: Shoots
Edible: Shoots
Edible: Shoots, Seeds
Edible: Shoots
Bambu gombong
Edible: Shoots
Mayong bamboo
Edible: Shoots.
Edible: Shoots
Edible: Shoots, Vegetable
Whorled bamboo, Giant stripy bamboo
Edible: Shoots
Edible: Shoots
Creeping Manna Grass
Edible: Seeds, Cereal
Manna (sweet) grass
Edible: Stems chewed
Northern Mannagrass
Edible: Seeds, Cereal
Floating manna grass, Manna grass
Edible: Seeds, Cereal
American mannagrass
Edible: Seeds
North-western Manna Grass
Edible: Seeds, Cereal
Plicate Sweet-grass, Weak Mannagrass
Edible: Seeds, Cereal
Eastern mannagrass
Edible: Seeds, Cereal
Fowl manna grass
Edible: Seeds, Cereal
Edible: Seeds, Cereal
Guadua
Edible: Shoots
Edible: Shoots?
Guadua
Edible: Shoots
Fleshy fruit guadua
Edible: Fruit
Swamp couch
Edible: Rhizome, Root
Bush Sugarcane, Wheat Spear Grass, Giant spear grass
Edible: Stems
Holy grass, Sweet grass, Vanilla grass
Edible: Seeds, Cereal, Leaves - flavouring
Cinnamon-grass, Karetu
Edible: Leaves - tea
Himalayan blue bamboo
Edible: Seeds, Cereal, Shoots, Vegetable
Edible: Seeds, Cereal
Colazorra
Edible: Seeds
Smooth barley
Edible: Seeds, Cereal
Edible: Seeds
Edible: Grain, Seeds, Cereal
Bengal wild rice
Edible: Seeds, Cereal
Edible: Seeds, Grain, Cereal