25+ Best Spinach Recipes

25+ Best Spinach Recipes - Spinach (Spinacia oleracea) is a flowering plant that can be eaten in the native Amaranthaceae family to central and western Asia. The leaves are eaten as vegetables. It is an annual (rarely biennial) plant that grows as high as 30 cm (1 ft). Spinach can survive during the winter in temperate climates. The leaves are alternated, simple, round to triangular, and vary greatly in size from about 2-30 cm (1-12 in) long and 1-15 cm (0.4-5.9 in) wide, with larger leaves at the base plants and small leaves are higher in flowering stems. The flowers are inconspicuous, yellow-green, 3-4 mm (0.1-0.2 in) in diameter, maturing into small, hard, dry, clumps of 5-10 mm clusters (0.2-0.4 in ) along with several seeds. The common spinach, S. oleracea, has long been considered in the Chenopodiaceae family, but in 2003, the family was incorporated into the Amaranthaceae family in the Caryophyllales order. In the family Amaranthaceae sensu lato, Spinach belongs to Chenopodioideae subfamily.