| Scientific Name: | Brassica oleracea (Italica Group) |
| Common Name: | broccoli |
| Family Name: | Brassicaceae |
| Origin: | Europe, Garden origin |
| Hardiness Zone: | Zone 7: (-18 to -12 °C) |
| Plant Type: | Annual (grown as), Biennial |
| Mature Size: | 0.4 - 0.7m x 0.6 - 1.0m (height x width) |
| Habit: | Arching |
| Form: | Mounded |
| Texture: | Very coarse |
| Landscape Uses: | Urban agriculture |
| Exposure: | Full sun |
| Soil or Media: | Humus rich, Well-drained |
| Leaves: | Simple, Lobed, Alternate, Leathery, Pinnate venation, Glabrous, Elliptic, Obovate, Pinnately lobed, Undulate (wavy) |
| Flowers: | Panicle, Yellow, Sep-Oct |
| Fruit: | Silique, Green-yellow, Oct |
| Key ID Features: | |
| Leaves basal, most blades braodly elliptic to obovate, 12-20cm long x 8-12cm wide, margins lobed and wavy; flower buds green, large and in tight, terminal clusters at the ends of thick edible stems, becomes a bloom of bright yellow forets in an upright panicle (if the buds are not harvested). | |