List of culinary herbs and spices
This is a list of culinary herbs and spices. Specifically these are food or drink additives of mostly botanical origin used in nutritionally insignificant quantities for flavoring or coloring.
This list does not contain fictional plants such as aglaophotis, or recreational drugs such as tobacco.
This list is not for plants used primarily for herbal teas, nor for purely medicinal plant products, such as valerian.A
- Ajwain, carom seeds
- Akudjura
- Alexanders
- Alkanet, for red color
- Alligator pepper, mbongo spice, hepper pepper
- Allspice
- Angelica
- Anise
- Aniseed myrtle
- Annatto
- Artemisia
- Asafoetida
- Avens
- Avocado leaf
B
- Barberry
- Basil, sweet
- Basil, Holy
- Basil, lemon
- Basil, Thai
- Bay leaf
- Indian Bay leaf, tejpat, malabathrum
- Boldo
- Borage
- Blue fenugreek, blue melilot
C
- California bay laurel
- Caper
- Caraway
- Cardamom
- Cardamom, black; badi ilaichi
- Cassia
- Catnip
- Cao guo, Chinese black cardamom
- Cayenne pepper
- Celery leaf
- Celery seed
- Chervil
- Cichοrium spinosum
- Chicory
- Chili pepper
- Chives
- Cicely, sweet cicely
- Cilantro, coriander greens, coriander herb, Chinese parsley
- Cinnamon, Indonesian
- Cinnamon, Saigon or Vietnamese
- Cinnamon, true or Ceylon
- Cinnamon, white
- Cinnamon myrtle
- Clary, Clary sage
- Clove
- Coriander seed
- Coriander, Vietnamese
- Costmary
- Cubeb pepper
- Cudweed
- Culantro, culangot, long coriander, recao
- Cumin
- Curry leaf
- Curry plant
D
- Dill herb or weed
- Dill seed
E
- Elderflower
- Epazote
F
- Fennel
- Fenugreek
- Filé powder, gumbo filé
- Fingerroot, temu kuntji, krachai, k'cheay
G
- Galangal, greater
- Galangal, lesser
- Galingale
- Garlic
- Garlic chives
- Ginger
- Ginger, torch, bunga siantan
- Golpar, Persian hogweed
- Grains of paradise
- Grains of Selim, Kani pepper
H
- Hoja santa, hierba santa, acuyo
- Horseradish
- Houttuynia cordata
- Huacatay, Mexican marigold, mint marigold
- Hyssop
I
- Indonesian bay leaf, daun salam
J
- Jasmine flowers
- Jakhya
- Jalapeño
- Jiaogulan
- Jimbu
- Juniper berry
K
- Kaffir lime leaves, Makrud lime leaves
- Kala zeera, black cumin
- Kawakawa seeds
- Keluak, kluwak, kepayang
- Kencur, galangal, kentjur
- Kinh gioi, Vietnamese balm
- Kokam seed
- Korarima, Ethiopian cardamom, false cardamom
- Koseret leaves
L
- Lavender
- Lemon balm
- Lemon ironbark
- Lemon myrtle
- Lemon verbena
- Lemongrass
- Leptotes bicolor
- Lesser calamint, nipitella, nepitella
- Licorice, liquorice
- Lime flower, linden flower
- Lovage
- Locust beans
M
- Mace
- Mahleb, St. Lucie cherry
- Marjoram
- Mastic
- Mint, 25 species, hundreds of varieties
- Mountain horopito, 'pepper-plant'
- Musk mallow, abelmosk
- Mustard, black, mustard plant, mustard seed
- Mustard, brown, mustard plant, mustard seed
- Mustard, white, mustard plant, mustard seed
- Mustard, yellow
N
- New Mexico chile, green chile or red chile, sometimes referred to as Hatch peppers
- Nigella, black caraway, black cumin, black onion seed, kalonji
- Njangsa, djansang
- Nutmeg
O
- Olida
- Oregano
- Oregano, Cuban
- Orris root
P
- Pandan flower, kewra
- Pandan leaf, screwpine
- Pápalo
- Paprika
- Paracress
- Parsley
- Pennyroyal
- Pepper, black, white, and green
- Pepper, Brazilian, or pink pepper
- Pepper, Dorrigo
- Pepper, long
- Pepper, mountain, Cornish pepper leaf
- Peppermint
- Peppermint gum leaf
- Perilla
- * Deulkkae
- * Kkaennip
- * Shiso
- Peruvian pepper
- Pipicha, straight-leaf pápalo
- Poppy seed
- Purslane
Q
- Quassia, bitter spice in aperitifs and some beers and fortified wines
R
- Red rice powder
- Rice paddy herb
- Rosemary
- Rue
S
- Safflower, only for yellow color
- Saffron
- * use of saffron
- Sage
- Salad burnet
- Salep
- Sassafras
- Sesame Seed, Black Sesame Seed
- Savory, summer
- Savory, winter
- Shiso
- Silphium, silphion, laser, laserpicium, sorado
- Sorrel
- Sorrel, sheep
- Spearmint
- Spikenard
- Star anise
- Sumac
- Sweet woodruff
- Szechuan pepper, Sichuan pepper
T
- Tarragon
- Tasmanian pepper )
- Thyme
- Thyme, lemon
- Turmeric
V
- Vanilla
- Voatsiperifery
W
- Wasabi
- Water-pepper, smartweed
- Watercress
- Wattleseed
- Wild thyme
- Willow herb
- Wintergreen
- Wood avens, herb bennet
- Woodruff
- Wormwood, absinthe
Y
- Yerba buena, any of four different species, many unrelated
- Yarrow
Z
- Za'atar
- Zedoary
Culinary herbs and spices by country, region and culture
- List of Afghani spices and herbs
- Assamese spices
- Aztec spices
- Bulgarian spices
- Chilean herbs and spices
- Hungarian spices
- Indonesian spices
- List of Armenian spices and herbs
- List of Australian herbs and spices
- List of Bangladeshi spices
- List of Gujarati spices
- List of Indian spices
- List of Indonesian spices
- List of Indonesian spices
- List of Italian herbs and spices
- List of Pakistani spices
- List of Puerto Rican spices and seasonings
- List of Thai herbs and spices
- List of Vietnamese spices and herbs
- Lithuanian spices
- Manado spices
- Medieval spices
- Moroccan spices
- Nigerien spices
- Sri Lankan spices
- South Asian spices
- Thai herbs and spices
- Vietnamese herbs and spices
