Vegetables That Start With C

17 vegetables Food and drink Checked 9 Oct 2026

Here are 17 vegetables that start with C, each with a one-line description so you can tell what it is. The best-known ones come first, then the full list in A to Z order.

C is a powerhouse letter for vegetables, with seventeen entries. Carrot, cabbage, cucumber, corn and celery are everyday picks that most children can name and draw.

The list also shows a clear family of peppers: chili pepper and cayenne pepper are both hot. Leafy greens are strong here too, including chard, cress, chicory and collards. Cassava is a starchy tropical root, and celeriac is the knobbly root of a celery plant. Courgette is another word for zucchini, a good fact for anyone switching between British and American recipes.

Vegetables starting with C: 17
Best known: carrot, cabbage
Longest name: cayenne pepper

Best-known vegetables that start with C

The ones most people will recognise, good for school lists, quizzes and games.

carrot
cabbage
cucumber
celery
cauliflower
chickpea
chili pepper
cassava
corn

All vegetables that start with C

#	Name	What it is
1	cabbage	any of various types of cabbage
2	carrot	orange root; important source of carotene
3	cassava	starchy tropical root used like potato
4	cauliflower	compact head of white undeveloped flowers
5	cayenne pepper	a long and often twisted hot red pepper
6	celeriac	thickened edible aromatic root of a variety of celery plant
7	celery	stalks eaten raw or cooked or used as seasoning
8	chard	long succulent whitish stalks with large green leaves
9	cherry tomato	small red to yellow tomatoes
10	chickpea	large white roundish Asiatic legume; usually dried
11	chicory	crisp spiky leaves with somewhat bitter taste
12	chili pepper	very hot and finely tapering pepper of special pungency
13	collards	kale that has smooth leaves
14	corn	tall plant with yellow kernels on a cob
15	courgette	small cucumber-shaped vegetable marrow; typically dark green
16	cress	pungent leaves of any of numerous cruciferous herbs
17	cucumber	cylindrical green fruit with thin green rind and white flesh eaten as a vegetable; related to melons

Short vegetables with C

corn
chard
cress

Questions people ask

How many vegetables start with C?

This list has 17 vegetables starting with C, from well-known ones like carrot, cabbage, cucumber to rarer kinds.

What vegetables start with C?

Well-known examples are carrot, cabbage, cucumber, celery, cauliflower, chickpea, chili pepper, cassava.

Source: Princeton WordNet, a public dictionary database, reviewed by our editors to keep only clear, real members of the list. Meanings are short dictionary glosses.

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