Names
No scientific synonyms are recorded for this name.
English: Spinach, Spinach [plant], Spinash.
In other languages
- Arabic: إِسفاناخ, سبانخ
- Belarusian: Шпінат агародны
- Catalan: Espinac
- Chinese: bo cai, 菠菜, 菠菜 bo cai
- Czech: špenát setý
- Danish: Spinat
- Dutch: Spinazie
- Estonian: Aedspinat
- Finnish: pinaatti, ruokapinaatti
- French: Épinard, Epinard, Épinard potager, Épinard, Épinard cultivé
- German: Echter Spinat, Gemuese-Spinat, Spinat
- Greek: spanaki, Σπανάκι
- Hebrew: תרד, תרד Tered
- Hindi: pinni
- Hungarian: kerti spenót, Spenót
- Italian: spinacio, Spinacio comune
- Japanese: horenso, ホウレンソウ, ほうれんそう Hourensou, 法蓮草, 菠薐草
- Korean: sigeumchi, 시금치
- Latvian: Dārza spināti
- Luxembourgish: Päinetsch
- Norwegian (Bokmål): spinat
- Norwegian (Nynorsk): spinat
- Polish: Szpinak, Szpinak warzywny
- Portuguese: espinafre, espinafre-japonês, espinafre-verdadeiro
- Russian: Шпинат огородный
- Serbian: Спанаћ
- Slovak: špenát siaty
- Slovene: navadna špinača
- Spanish: espinaca
- Swedish: spenat
- Tamil: பசளி
- Telugu: పాలకూర
- Thai: ปวยเล้ง
- Turkish: ıspanak
- Vietnamese: Rau chân vịt
- Welsh: Nyddoes, Ysbigoglys, Yspigawglys
- epo: Spinaco
- nor: spinat
- uig: پالەك
Names with no language recorded: bo cai, horenso, pinni, sigeumchi, spinach, Spinod, 시금치.
Where it is recorded
- USDA PLANTS: SPOL
- FAOSTAT item code: cbc3bd99-b1cd-4d
- GBIF: 3083647
- GRIN: 35256
- Wikidata: Q81464
- Wikidata: L1371245-S1
Taxonomy record sources: GBIF (CC BY 4.0), USDA_PLANTS_CATALOG (Public Domain). Loaded from the botanica open cultivated-plant knowledge base and the GBIF backbone; each row keeps its origin.
Growth stages
- Initial: about 20 days (FAO 56 Table 11: planted Apr; Sep/Oct, Mediterranean)
- Crop development: about 20 days (FAO 56 Table 11: planted Apr; Sep/Oct, Mediterranean)
- Mid-season: about 15 days (FAO 56 Table 11: planted Apr; Sep/Oct, Mediterranean)
- Late season: about 5 days (FAO 56 Table 11: planted Apr; Sep/Oct, Mediterranean)
What the sources say it wants
Each line shows the band, then the kind of source and the citation. "Published" means the number is printed on the cited page; "derived" means it was computed from published numbers with the formula recorded on the row; "external API" rows are refreshed nightly from a live source; "curated" rows are OAT's own working values from June 2026.
Whole cycle
| Zone | Measure | Band | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| Light | Daily light integral at the canopy (mol/m2/d) | 12 to 20 (warning below 12) | published: DLI 'Requirements' (Runkle, GPN 'Technically Speaking', May 2019, p.50) (Michigan State University Floricultur |
| Root zone | Root-zone EC (dS/m) | up to 2 (warning above 3.3, alert above 5.3) | published: FAO Irrigation and Drainage Paper 29, 1985 |
Initial
| Zone | Measure | Band | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| Timing | Crop coefficient, initial stage (ratio) | 0.7 | published: FAO Irrigation and Drainage Paper 56, 1998 |
Mid-season
| Zone | Measure | Band | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| Timing | Crop coefficient, mid-season (ratio) | 1 | published: FAO Irrigation and Drainage Paper 56, 1998 |
Late season
| Zone | Measure | Band | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| Timing | Crop coefficient, end of season (ratio) | 0.95 | published: FAO Irrigation and Drainage Paper 56, 1998 |
Keystone status
Partial. The KEEP rule asks for a growth stage and a band in each of light, air and root zone before a crop counts as complete; this plant is in the keystone with what its sources give so far.
Generated 2026-09-15 from the OAT plant keystone. Source types and citations are carried on every row; the keystone snapshot that the Library instruments read is plant-targets.json and its quality sheet is plant-targets.quality.json.