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