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(This article is about plants. If you want information about trees, see Tree.)

Crops (or more accurately plants) can either be farmed, traded for, or acquired by plant gathering. Farming happens at farm plots. There are two types of crops: above ground and subterranean. The seeds of subterranean crops may be brought from the starting embark screen or, with some small luck, purchased from dwarven caravans. Above ground crops and seeds may be purchased from human or elven caravans or gathered by dwarves with the plant gathering labor enabled. Seeds may also be collected by processing the plants or eating them (but not by cooking!). There is a limit of 200 seeds of a given type at a time, after which no more will be produced.

A few of the plants listed below are not strictly crops, as they have no seeds and can't be planted (see note "4", below.)

Most plants can be brewed into alcohols, each plant type producing a different variation, and dwarves do prefer some variety in their drink. Some plants may be eaten raw, others must be cooked first, others must be processed first (by milling or plant processing) before they are edible, and still others are inedible, producing only non-food products (their seeds can be cooked anyway, however). Drinks may be cooked as ingredients in prepared meals, but at least one of the ingredients must be a non-liquid.

All drinks require a spare barrel or large pot for storage, and some other products also require specific containers for storage. Plants can be stored in barrels or without a container; seeds are stored individually or in bags which can then be put into barrels. It may be advisable to have a small stockpile that accepts only seeds next to your farm(s), since dwarves will happily carry entire pots of seeds across the map to pick up a single seed, leading to cancellation spam and irregular planting.

Plump helmets and pig tails can be harvested 25 days after sowing. All other subterranean crops need about 42 days.

Tile	Graphic	Name	Biome & seasons	Align	Value	Drink	Drink value1	Eat	Cook2	Product(s)5 & value
♠		Plump helmet	Wet cavern Wet Dry Spring Summer Autumn Winter	All	4☼	Dwarven wine	10☼	Yes	Yes	None
τ		Pig tail	Wet cavern Wet Dry style="border:1px #AAA solid;"| Spring Summer Autumn Winter	All	4☼	Dwarven ale	10☼	No	No	None
τ		Cave wheat	Wet cavern Wet Dry style="border:1px #AAA solid;"| Spring Summer Autumn Winter	All	4☼	Dwarven beer	10☼	No	Pr3	None
Φ		Sweet pod	Wet cavern Wet Dry style="border:1px #AAA solid;"| Spring Summer Autumn Winter	All	4☼	Dwarven rum	10☼	No	Pr3	None
♣		Quarry bush	Wet cavern Wet Dry style="border:1px #AAA solid;"| Spring Summer Autumn Winter	All	4☼	None	—	No	Pr3	None
♥		Dimple cup	Wet cavern Wet Dry Spring Summer Autumn Winter	All	4☼	None	—	No	No	None
τ		Muck root/4	Wetland  (Wet) Wet Dry Spring Summer Autumn Winter	All	1☼	Swamp whiskey	5☼	Yes	Yes	None
Φ		Bloated tuber/4	Wetland  (Dry) Wet Dry Spring Summer Autumn Winter	All	2☼	Tuber beer	10☼	Yes	Yes	None
Φ		Kobold bulb/4	Wetland  (Wet) Wet Dry Spring Summer Autumn Winter	All	5☼	None	—	No	No	None
:		Prickle berry	Not freezing  (Dry) Wet Dry Spring Summer Autumn Winter	All	1☼	Prickle berry wine	5☼	Yes	Yes	None
:		Strawberry	Not freezing  (Dry) Wet Dry Spring Summer Autumn Winter	All	4☼	Strawberry wine	10☼	Yes	Yes	None
τ		Longland grass	Not freezing  (Dry) Wet Dry Spring Summer Autumn Winter	All	4☼	Longland beer	10☼	No	Pr3	None
ÿ		Valley herb/4	Temperate grassland  (Dry) Wet Dry style="border:1px #AAA solid;"| Spring Summer Autumn Winter	All	10☼	None	—	No	Yes	None
τ		Rat weed	Not freezing  (Wet) Wet Dry Spring Summer Autumn Winter	All	1☼	Sewer brew	5☼	Yes	Yes	None
:		Fisher berry	Not freezing  (Wet) Wet Dry Spring Summer Autumn Winter	All	4☼	Fisher berry wine	10☼	Yes	Yes	None
ƒ		Rope reed	Not freezing  (Wet) Wet Dry Spring Summer Autumn Winter	All	4☼	River spirits	10☼	No	No	None
τ		Blade weed	Not freezing  (Dry) Wet Dry Spring Summer Autumn Winter	All	4☼	None	—	No	No	None
τ		Hide root	Not freezing  (Dry) Wet Dry Spring Summer Autumn Winter	All	1☼	None	—	No	No	None
τ		Sliver barb	Not freezing  (Dry) Wet Dry Spring Summer Autumn Winter	Evil	1☼	Gutter cruor	5☼	No	No	None
:		Sun berry	Not freezing  (Wet) Wet Dry Spring Summer Autumn Winter	Good	9☼	Sunshine	25☼	Yes	Yes	None
§		Whip vine	Not freezing  (Dry) Wet Dry Spring Summer Autumn Winter	Savage	1☼	Whip wine	15☼	No	Pr3	None

Notes:

¹ This is the value for a stack of 5 units, which is the number rendered from a single plant.

² Anything that can be cooked is edible afterwards. Cooking leaves no seeds for re-planting.

³ These plants cannot be eaten/cooked until they are further processed, either by milling or extracting; see "products" column for process product.

⁴ These plants cannot be grown on a farm plot as they have no seeds. They can only be acquired through plant gathering (in season only) or trade.

⁵ To get the products/extracts from the plants they have to be processed, in the following workshops, using the following labors:

• m: mill (cave wheat, sweet pod, longland grass, whip vine, dimple cup, blade weed, hide root, sliver barb): At quern or millstone, using milling.
• b: process to bag (quarry bush): At farmer's workshop, using plant processing. In Df2014, processing plants to bag was reimplemented as a reaction. In 0.40.01 this reaction neglected to produce any seeds; this bug was fixed in 0.40.02.
• s: press paste into oil (quarry bush): At screw press.
• l: process to barrel (sweet pod): At farmer's workshop, using plant processing.
• p: process plant (pig tail, rope reed): At farmer's workshop, using plant processing.
• v: process to vial (valley herb): At farmer's workshop, using plant processing.
• e: extract plant essence (kobold bulb): At still, using plant gathering.

Garden Plants

All garden plants are above-ground, and can grow year-round. Garden plants are defined in a separate file from standard plants, named, somewhat predictably, plant_garden.txt
Unlike standard plants, garden plants will also produce growths - leaves, buds, flowers, pods and fruits. As a general rule, leaves can be only cooked, buds can be both cooked and brewed. // todo: fill in rest; didn't get that far.

Tile	Graphic	Name	Biome & seasons	Align	Value	Drink	Drink value1	Eat	Cook2	Product(s)5 & value
:(58)		Artichoke	Dry temperate Wet Dry Spring Summer Autumn Winter	All	2☼	artichoke wine	2☼	Yes	Yes	None
:(58)		Asparagus	Dry grassland Wet Dry Spring Summer Autumn Winter	All	2☼	None	—	Yes	Yes	None
:		Bambara groundnut	Tropical dry broadleaf forest, tropical grassland, tropical savanna, tropical shrubland  (Dry) Wet Dry Spring Summer Autumn Winter	All	2☼	None	—	Yes	Yes	None
:		String bean	Temperate  (Dry) Wet Dry Spring Summer Autumn Winter	All	2☼	None	—	No	Yes	None
:		Broad bean	Temperate  (Dry) Wet Dry Spring Summer Autumn Winter	All	2☼	None	—	No	Yes	None
:		Beet	Temperate grassland  (Dry) Wet Dry Spring Summer Autumn Winter	All	2☼	beetroot wine	2☼	Yes	Yes	None
:		Bitter melon	Tropical  (Dry) Wet Dry Spring Summer Autumn Winter	All	2☼	None	—	No	Yes	None
:		Cabbage	Temperate  (Dry) Wet Dry Spring Summer Autumn Winter	All	2☼	None	—	Yes	Yes	None
:		Caper	Desert, Grassland  (Dry) Wet Dry Spring Summer Autumn Winter	All	2☼	None	—	Yes	Yes	None

See also

• Farming