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Cicer echinospermum is a low, spreading wild annual legume from eastern Turkey and northern Iraq, closely related to the chickpea and a crop wild relative of it. It is not grown as an ornamental or houseplant, so care guidance mainly applies to seed trial or research cultivation.
Cicer echinospermum is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae. It is native to eastern Turkey and northern Iraq. A prostrate or procumbent annual, it is found in a variety of habitats including forests, grasslands, slopes, rocky areas, and anthropogenically disturbed areas at elevations from 700 to 1,100 m (2,300 to 3,600 ft). It has been assessed as Least Concern. Genetic and morphological evidence places it as a crop wild relative and sole member of the secondary gene pool of chickpea, Cicer arietinum.
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Cicer echinospermum by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.
The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
