Latin Name Common Name Structure Consumed Culinary Notes Growth Form Subfamily Native Region dry seed, spice or grain-like Acacia spp. wattle seed tree Mimosoideae Australia pulse Apios americana Potato bean tuber and pod perennial vine Faboideae North America Arachis hypogaea Peanut Seed Dry seed (pulse) annual Faboideae Argentina, Bolivia Arachis villosulicarpa annual peanut Seed Dry seed (pulse) perennial Faboideae Brazil Aspalathus linearis rooibos leaves tea shrub Faboideae South Africa Astragalus brachycalyx gum tragacanth sap dried sap, used as a binder perennial herb Faboideae Middle East Astragalus propinquus astragalus root perennial herb Faboideae China dried seed extract as a Caesalpinia spinosa tara seed shrub Caesalpinioideae South America gum Cajanus cajan Pigeon pea seed Dry seed (pulse) perennial herb Faboideae Indian subcontinent Canavalia ensiformis Jack bean Seed Dry seed (pulse) vine Faboideae American Canavalia gladiata sword bean Seed Dry seed (pulse) vine Faboideae East Asian Caragana arborescens Siberian peashrub Seed Dry seed (pulse) shrub Faboideae Asia ground dried pod is carob Ceratonia siliqua carob pod, seed powder; locust bean gum is tree Caesalpinioideae Mediterranean from seed chickpea, garbanzo, Bengal Dry seed (pulse), fresh Cicer arietinum Seed annual herb Faboideae Asia gram immature seed Cochliasanthus caracalla caracalla bean flower perennial vine Faboideae Cordeauxia edulis yeheb nut seed Dry seed (pulse) shrub Caesalpinioideae South Africa Crotalaria longirostrata Chipilín leaf leafy vegetable perennial herb Faboideae Mexico, Central America gum, an extract from dry Cyamopsis tetragonoloba guar seed tree Faboideae northeast Africa, Middle East seed Cyclopia spp. honeybush leaves tea shrub Faboideae South Africa Detarium microcarpum detar pod, seed, leaves, flowers immature pod tree Caesalpinioideae West Africa Gleditsia triacanthos Honey locust pod pulp pulp inside immature pod tree Caesalpinioideae North America Glycine max soybean Seed Dry seed, fresh seed annual herb Faboideae East Asia Glycyrrhiza glabra licorice root extract perennial herb Faboideae southern Europe, western Asia pulp inside immature pod, Inga spp. ice cream bean pod pulp, seed tree Mimosoideae South America dry seed Inocarpus fagifer Tahitian chestnut seed cooked seed tree Faboideae tropical Asia annual or Lablab purpureus hyacinth bean, lablab Seed Dry seed (pulse) Faboideae Africa Perennialperennial vineor Lathyrus spp. grass pea Seed Dry seed (pulse) Faboideae temperate, cosmopolitan annual herb Lathyrus tuberosus tuberous pea tuber perennial vine Faboideae Eurasian This list of edible legume species was Lens culinaris Lentil Seed Dry seed (pulse) annual herb Faboideae Near East perennial or Dry seed (pulse), Lupinus spp. lupini Seed annual herb or Faboideae Mediterranean, South America fermented and pickled shrub painstakingly compiled by Jeanne L. D. Macrotyloma geocarpum Hausa groundnut Seed Dry seed (pulse) annual herb Faboideae West Africa Osnas for The Botanist in the Kitchen Macrotyloma uniflorum horse gram Seed Dry seed (pulse) annual herb Faboideae West Asia Medicago sativa alfalfa leaf, sprout sprout, tea of dry leaves perennial herb Faboideae Central Asia Mucuna pruriens var. utilis Velvet bean, cowitch Seed Dry seed (pulse) annual vine Faboideae tropical Africa and Asia blog (https://botanistinthekitchen.blog/). Neptunia oleracea water mimosa leaf vegetable perennial vine Mimosoideae tropical Asia Pachyrhizus ahipa ahipa root perennial vine Faboideae South America Pachyrhizus erosus yam bean Seed Dry seed (pulse) Faboideae South America Please respect our creative commons Pachyrhizus erosus jicama root fresh perennial vine Faboideae Mexico Pachyrhizus tuberosus yam bean root, seeds, pod perennial vine Faboideae South America immature pod or immature Parkia spp. locust bean pod, seed tree Mimosoideae pantropical license regarding attributed use or ask me seed Parkinsonia florida blue palo verde seed Dry seed (pulse) tree Caesalpinioideae North America Pediomelum cuspidatum largebract Indian breadroot tuber perennial herb Faboideae North America about it ([email protected]) if you'd Pediomelum hypogaeum little Indian breadroot tuber perennial herb Faboideae North America Phaseolus acutifolius Tepary bean Seed Dry seed (pulse) annual herb Faboideae Phaseolus coccineus Scarlet runner bean Seed Dry seed (pulse) annual herb Faboideae like to use this list in your research or Phaseolus lunatus lima bean, butter bean Seed Dry seed (pulse) annual herb Faboideae Phaseolus vulgaris common bean Seed Dry seed (pulse) annual herb Faboideae Dry seed (pulse), fresh classroom. If you think I've missed a immature seed, fresh Pisum sativum var. sativum pea Seed, pod, shoot immature pod, fresh annual herb Faboideae Mediterranean immature shoots as a green vegetable species or got it wrong, please feel free to fresh pulp from pod, seeds Pithecellobium dulce huamúchil, blackbead pod, seed tree Mimosoideae American tropics used for oil Prosopis spp mesquites pod dry pod tree Mimosoideae North America, Central America let me know! Seed, pod, flower, leaf, Dry seed (pulse), other Psophocarpus tetragonolobus Winged bean perennial vine Faboideae New Guinea tuber structures fresh Psoralea esculenta prairie turnip tuber perennial herb Faboideae North America dry root powder or Pueraria montana kudzu root, shoot, leaves, flowers perennial vine Faboideae southeast Asia extracted starch cooked vegetable, dry seeds used for gelling Senna tora Cassia tora leaves, seeds agent and made into a annual herb Caesalpinioideae tropical Asia coffee-like roasted beverage young and tender pods, Sesbania grandiflora agati pod, leaf, flower tree Robinioid Australia, Malaysia leaves and flowers pulp from dry pod (soak it Tamarindus indica tamarind pod tree Caesalpinioideae tropical Africa first and then scrape out) Trifolium pratense red clover flower tea perennial herb Faboideae Eurasia Seeds and Leaves (both Spice, grain-like seed, and Trigonella foenum-graecum Fenugreek Annual herb Faboideae Near East fresh and dried) vegetable Tylosema esculentum marama bean tuber, seed perennial vine Caesalpinioideae Vachellia (Acacia) seyal gum arabic resin emulsifier tree Mimosoideae east Africa, Middle East fava, broad bean, horse Vicia faba Seed Dry seed (pulse) Annual herb Faboideae Middle East bean, field bean Vicia sativa Vetch Seed Dry seed (pulse) Annual herb Faboideae Eurasia Vigna aconitifolia Moth bean Seed Dry seed (pulse) annual herb Faboideae West Asia Vigna angularis Azuki bean Seed Dry seed (pulse) annual herb Faboideae East Asia Vigna lanceolata pencil yam root perennial herb Faboideae Australia Vigna luteola hairy cowpea seed, flower, leaf, tuber perennial herb Faboideae Africa Vigna mungo Black gram Seed Dry seed (pulse) annual herb Faboideae West Asia Vigna radiata Mung bean Seed, sprout Dry seed (pulse), sprout annual herb Faboideae Indian subcontinent Dry seed (pulse); pods Vigna subterranea Bambara groundnut Seed ripen underground like perennial herb Faboideae West Africa peanut Vigna umbellata Ricebean Seed Dry seed (pulse) annual vine Faboideae West Asia cow pea: black-eyed pea Dry seed (pulse), fresh Vigna unguiculata Seed annual herb Faboideae West Africa (varietal group Unguiculata) immature seed cow pea:catjang (varietal Dry seed (pulse), fresh Vigna unguiculata Seed annual vine Faboideae West Africa group Biflora) immature seed cow pea: yardlong bean Dry seed (pulse), fresh Vigna unguiculata (varietal group Seed annual vine Faboideae West Africa immature seed Sesquipedalis).