It can be used in making local beverages. Leaves can be used as a pot-herb and can be consumed as a vegetable after boiling. Plants are valued for green manure but have weedy tendencies. Mixed with oil cake and salts, seeds are used as a nutritive feed for poultry and livestock. Normal vitamins are carotene, thiamine, riboflavin, nicotinic acid, biotin, pantothenic acid, folic acid, pyridoxine, inositol, ascorbic acid, and dehydroascorbic acid.
Occasional use is harmless.
The upper leaflets often have modified tendrils. The crop is widely cultivated in Central, South, and East Europe, the Mediterranean and Africa. Grasspea grows well on almost all types of soil and in areas receiving 380-650 mm. It is a hardy crop suited to dry climates, producing good seed crops on poor soils. Grasspea is commonly cultivated on heavy clay soils.