Family: Fabaceae
High Risk Traits:
- A widely cultivated, domesticated crop that is either naturalized or escaped and persisting in places where cultivated
- Potential host of crop pests and pathogens
- Tolerates many soil types (not substrate limited)
- Reproduces by seeds
- Self-fertile
- Reaches maturity in 6-7 weeks from seed
- Seeds dispersed in grain and food waste, in animal dung, and through intentional cultivation
- Seeds remain viable for up to 5 years in cool, dry storage (potential to form a seed bank under certain natural conditions)
Low Risk Traits:
- A widely cultivated, domesticated crop with no definitive reports of negative impacts to agriculture or the natural environment
- Unarmed (no spines, thorns, or burrs)
- Palatable to animals and humans
- Non-toxic
- Grows best in high light environments (dense shade may inhibit spread)
- Relatively large seeds unlikely to be accidentally dispersed long distances