Leaf vegetables

Leaf vegetables

Also called green vegetables, leafy greens or simply greens, these are plant leaves eaten as a vegetable. Leaf vegetables come from a large variety of plants (often including tender petioles and shoots) and contain good nutrition value for a healthy diet.

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Leaf vegetables

foraged wild lettuce

Fruits & vegetables; Leaf vegetables

Wild lettuce is a biennial in the sunflower family. Botanically known as Lactuca virosa, common names also include Bitter lettuce, wild lettuce, Prickly lettuce and Opium lettuce. Though its leaves ...

freckle lettuce

Fruits & vegetables; Leaf vegetables

Freckles lettuce, AKA Flashy Troutback, is an open-pollinated Romaine lettuce variety unique to lettuce cultivars. As its name suggests, it may have achieved its special markings due to the sun. The ...

giant nobel spinach

Fruits & vegetables; Leaf vegetables

Just seven years after its release, the giant nobel was chosen as an "All-American Selection" winner in 1933. Giant Noble spinach has large, green, thick, gently savoyed leaves with sugar-sweet, thin ...

green leaf lettuce

Fruits & vegetables; Leaf vegetables

Green leaf lettuce is one of hundreds of members of the Lactuca genus and the Asteraceae family. Lettuce is categorized into six different types, also known as subspecies or botanical varieties. The ...

green okami spinach

Fruits & vegetables; Leaf vegetables

Green okami spinach produces rich, green, spear-shaped leaves with tender, edible stems. This spinach variety is delicate and offers a mild spinach flavor. Green okami spinach is similar to Baby ...

hydro red gem lettuce

Fruits & vegetables; Leaf vegetables

Red gem lettuce from Go Green Agriculture are petite in size and forms a compact rosette of leaves. The red gem lettuce has an overall vivid green color that stems from the base of the leaf and ...

hydroponic Boston lettuce

Fruits & vegetables; Leaf vegetables

Boston Bibb lettuce, Lactuca sativa, is a butterhead type of lettuce. This distinction explains that each lettuce variety in the butterhead family will form compact rosette shaped heads and large, ...