Chickpea (Cicer arietinum) is an annual legume grown for its edible seeds, eaten cooked, roasted, sprouted, or ground into flour. Like other legumes, it improves soil fertility by fixing nitrogen through root nodules. Inputs Hardiness zone 81 Hardiness zone 91 Hardiness zone 101 Hardiness zone 111 Outputs Human food1 Type Annual Functions Nitrogen fixer1 Footnotes Cicer arietinum | Plants for a Future ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5 ↩6