Application

No known medicinal uses.

Summer – Flat beans have been grown as cattle feed.

Ingredients

Like other broadleaf legumes, the seeds contain formic acid derivatives, which make the seeds poisonous to eat.

Summer flat-legume Lathyrus annuus L.
Summer-Flat Pod
Lathyrus annuus L.
Photo of page in Joachim Burser's herbarium.

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