List of vegetables

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 botanical fruits such as pumpkins, and does not include herbs, spices, cereals and most culinary fruits and culinary nuts.

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.

Bok choy or Chinese cabbage in flower
Garden Cress
Iceberg lettuce field in northern Santa Barbara County .
Spinach in flower
Miner's lettuce
Calabaza flowers
"Common bean", "kidney bean", "haricot bean", "pinto bean", "navy bean", and "green bean" are all varieties of the species Phaseolus vulgaris .
Varieties of soybeans are used for many purposes.
Garlic bulbs and individual cloves, one peeled.
Carrots come in a variety of shapes, sizes and colors.
The potato is one of the world's staple foods .