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Perennial vegetable Plant Profiles

Browse 18 perennial vegetable profiles with Plant by ZIP hardiness, light, soil, water, spacing, timing, and source notes. Open a profile for photos, quantitative ranges, and pairing notes.

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Sunchoke

nutty tubers in fall and winter

Vegetables & herbsPollinators & wildlifenative sunflower tubervery vigorous
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Green Globe artichoke

buds form in spring to summer

Vegetables & herbsCurb appeal & colorarchitectural foliageedible flower buds
Perennial vegetable

Lotus root

rhizomes in late season

Vegetables & herbsCurb appeal & coloredible water-garden cropshowy flowers
Perennial vegetable

Sea kale

blanched shoots and leaves in spring

Vegetables & herbsCurb appeal & colorcoastal perennial vegetableedible shoots
Perennial vegetable

Oca

colorful tubers in late fall

Vegetables & herbsCurb appeal & colorAndean tuber cropshort-day tuber formation
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Skirret

sweet white roots in fall

Vegetables & herbsPollinators & wildlifeold European root cropperennial vegetable
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Taro

corms and leaves in warm climates

Vegetables & herbsCurb appeal & colortropical ediblelarge foliage
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Victoria rhubarb

stalks harvest in spring

Vegetables & herbsCurb appeal & colorclassic pie plantlong-lived perennial
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Yacon

sweet crisp tubers after frost

Vegetables & herbsCurb appeal & colorAndean root cropsunflower relative
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Chinese water chestnut

corms after a long warm season

Vegetables & herbswet-soil cropcontainer pond crop
Perennial vegetable

Crosne Chinese artichoke

knobby tubers in fall

Vegetables & herbssmall tubersperennial edible
Perennial vegetable

Eddoe taro

small corms in long warm seasons

Vegetables & herbscompact tarowet-soil edible
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Egyptian walking onion

green onions and bulbils most seasons

Vegetables & herbsperennial alliumself-propagating topsets
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Good King Henry

spring shoots and summer greens

Vegetables & herbsold European perennial vegetablespinach-like leaves
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Jersey Knight asparagus

spears harvest in spring

Vegetables & herbsproductive male hybridlong-lived bed
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Rakkyo shallot

small bulbs in summer

Vegetables & herbsJapanese pickling onionsmall bulbs
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Chayote squash

green squash in fall

Vegetables & herbsvigorous tropical vineedible shoots and fruit
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Horseradish

roots harvest in fall

Vegetables & herbsaggressive perennial root croppungent flavor