Good King Henry
Jerzy Opioła, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Young leaves and young shoots are eaten as a vegetable. Leaves are prepared as a kind of spinach, while shoots are eaten like asparagus.
Good King Henry has in the past often been cultivated as a vegetable in cottage gardens but is now rarely grown.
Names
Scientific
Chenopodium bonus-henricus
English
Good King Henry
Perennial goosefoot
Poor-man's Asparagus
Dutch
Brave hendrik
Spanish
Espárrago de los pobres
Espárrago del Rey Enrique
French
Chénopode bon-henri
Épinard sauvage
German
Guter Heinrich
Wilder Spinat
Italian
Farinello buon-enrico
Taxonomy
Order
Caryophyllales
Family
Amaranthaceae
Genus
Chenopodium
Species
Chenopodium bonus-henricus (Good King Henry)
Crop categories
Food crops
Leaf vegetables
Stem vegetables
Temperate crops
Vegetables
Pictures
Good King Henry
Stefan.lefnaer, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
