Vegetables That Start With P

10 vegetables Food and drink Checked 9 Oct 2026

Here are 10 vegetables that start with P, 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.

Peppers, peas and potatoes anchor the P list of ten vegetables. Potato and pumpkin are the easy wins for kids, and pea and parsnip are close behind.

Several entries are kinds of pepper or bean. Pimento is a sweet red pepper, while pigeon pea and pinto bean are both seeds sold dried. Plantain is a starchy fruit that looks like a banana but is always cooked and treated as a vegetable. Plum tomato is a firm tomato that cooks prefer for sauces.

Vegetables starting with P: 10
Best known: pepper, potato
Longest name: plum tomato

Best-known vegetables that start with P

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

pepper
potato
pumpkin
pea
parsnip

All vegetables that start with P

#	Name	What it is
1	parsnip	whitish edible root; eaten cooked
2	pea	seed of a pea plant used for food
3	pepper	sweet and hot varieties of fruits of plants of the genus Capsicum
4	pigeon pea	small highly nutritious seed of the tropical pigeon-pea plant
5	pimento	fully ripened sweet red pepper; usually cooked
6	pinto bean	mottled or spotted bean of southwestern United States; usually dried
7	plantain	starchy banana-like fruit; eaten (always cooked) as a staple vegetable throughout the tropics
8	plum tomato	a kind of cherry tomato that is frequently used in cooking rather than eaten raw
9	potato	an edible tuber native to South America; a staple food of Ireland
10	pumpkin	usually large pulpy deep-yellow round fruit of the squash family maturing in late summer or early autumn

Short vegetables with P

Questions people ask

How many vegetables start with P?

This list has 10 vegetables starting with P, from well-known ones like pepper, potato, pumpkin to rarer kinds.

What vegetables start with P?

Well-known examples are pepper, potato, pumpkin, pea, parsnip.

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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