Wild celery is a marshland plant. Celery has a number of closely-grouped leaves with long, white, fibrous stalks and green leaves.

Celery is used as a vegetable, either cooked in soups and other dishes, or eaten raw in salads.

celery is grown in fields from seeds. The seeds all grow at about the same speed, meaning that the crop can be harvested all at once. Most supermarket celery has its leaves removed, and the edible part remaining are the stalks. Celery can be stored in a fridge for up to a couple of months in a sealed pack. If left in the open, it dries out.

Celery is used in many classic traditional dishes where the ingredients need to be plentiful and cheap. So, for example, celery, , onions, and bell peppers are the basis for Louisiana Creole and Cajun food. Celery, onions, and carrots make up a French soup base.

Celery has a very low nutritional content, and it is also very fibrous, so most of it passes through the gut without being consumed. That is why it is used by people on a diet.