Names
No scientific synonyms are recorded for this name.
English: Beet, Beetroot, Chard, Common Beet, Fodder Beet, Mangels, Silver Beet, Spinach Beet, Sugar Beet, Swiss Chard.
In other languages
- Arabic: باربة, بنجر, سلق, شمندر, شوندر
- Belarusian: Буракі звычайныя
- Bulgarian: Захарно цвекло
- Catalan: Remolatxa
- Chinese: 甜菜, 甜菜 Tian cai, 紅菜頭
- Croatian: Blitva
- Czech: řepa obecná
- Danish: Bede, Bederoe
- Dutch: Biet, Biet + Strandbiet, Strandbiet, Strandbiet en Biet
- Estonian: harilik peet
- Finnish: Juurikas, ruokajuurikas
- French: Bette commune, Bette commune, Betterave commune, Bette-épinard, Bette-épinard, Betterave, Betterave commune, Betterave commune, Bette, Betterave à sucre, Betterage fourragère, Betterave rouge, Betterave sucrière, Poirée, Bettes et betteraves
- Galician: Remolacha
- German: Rübe, Runkelrübe, Runkelruebe, Wilde Runkelrübe
- Greek: Παντζάρι, Τεύτλο
- Hebrew: סלק מצוי
- Hungarian: termesztett répa
- Irish: Laíon na trá
- Italian: Barbabietola, Bietola, Bietola comune
- Lithuanian: Paprastasis runkelis
- Luxembourgish: Rout Rommel
- Norwegian (Bokmål): bete
- Norwegian (Nynorsk): bete, Raudbete
- Polish: Burak zwyczajny
- Portuguese: acelga, Acelga-brava, beterraba, beterraba-forrageira, beterraba-hortícula, beterraba-sacarina
- Russian: Свёкла, Свекла обыкновенная, Свёкла обыкновенная
- Serbian: Репа
- Slovak: repa obyčajná
- Slovene: navadna pesa
- Spanish: Betabel
- Swedish: beta, juurikas
- Telugu: బీటురూట్
- Turkish: Pancar
- Ukrainian: Буряк столовий
- Welsh: Betys, Betysen
- nor: bete, Rødbete
- sin: බීට්රූට්
- sme: sohkarnáppoš
Names with no language recorded: Assikchìlpa hòmma, beet, chak-mots, Mangel-wurzel, Mangold (DE), Root Beet (EN), Rööw, Runkelrübe, ᎩᎦᎨ ᎦᎳᏍᎩ, 근대.
Where it is recorded
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 15 days (FAO 56 Table 11: planted Apr/May, Mediterranean)
- Crop development: about 25 days (FAO 56 Table 11: planted Apr/May, Mediterranean)
- Mid-season: about 20 days (FAO 56 Table 11: planted Apr/May, Mediterranean)
- Late season: about 10 days (FAO 56 Table 11: planted Apr/May, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Root zone | Root-zone EC (dS/m) | up to 7 (warning above 8.7, alert above 11) | published: FAO Irrigation and Drainage Paper 29, 1985 |
Initial
| Zone | Measure | Band | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| Timing | Crop coefficient, initial stage (ratio) | 0.5 | published: FAO Irrigation and Drainage Paper 56, 1998 |
Mid-season
| Zone | Measure | Band | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| Timing | Crop coefficient, mid-season (ratio) | 1.05 | 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 |
Cultivar groups with their own numbers
The species row above carries the species-level bands. These groups differ enough in the sources that they keep their own rows.
Beet, red
- Root-zone EC (dS/m): up to 4 (warning above 5.1, alert above 6.8) published: FAO Irrigation and Drainage Paper 29, 1985
Sugar Beet
- Crop coefficient, end of season (ratio): 0.7 published: FAO Irrigation and Drainage Paper 56, 1998
- Crop coefficient, initial stage (ratio): 0.35 published: FAO Irrigation and Drainage Paper 56, 1998
- Crop coefficient, mid-season (ratio): 1.2 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.