knittlin, as far as I could tell they came true to their parents. I cannot tell with the chickpeas since they have not even flowered yet. I also forgot I did plant the common (pantry) black eye peas a couple of years ago, and that was also very good. It was the first time I had them as shellies and they were delicious, too bad it takes so many of them to make a pound of beans. Lately I try not to plant from the same species close together, but with only 1/4 of an acre I cannot separate my species completely. However, I have many flowering bee attracting herbs (cilantro, mint, marjoram, thyme, oregano, rosemary, sage, lavender, borage), citrus flowers from the lemons, lots and lots of roses, still have tomatoes and eggplant flowering too. I have lots of bees! I put barrier crops all over the place, but with such small space I must have had bees transport DNA from one bean to another....bees have a radius of travel that is over a mile, don't they? I have not noticed any obvious crosses, except at first I was growing three varieties of P. vulgaris pole beans together, and the wax beans sometimes got a little purple tinge probably from the purple pole beans. I am not trading those seeds since I have only barely enough to replant (a bug got in the bean envelope and destroyed/ate a bunch of them, darn!). I am making an effort to only plant different species of pole beans together now. I also figure other gardeners will have similar problems unless they have a huge farm, and getting 1-2 % or so half breeds does not bother me.

The true leaves in the photo do not look similar to the leaves of any bean I've grown. I don't know what it is....but I doubt it is a garden variety bean.

"Pyola, not for bean beetles" Good to know, but not good that that takes away my organic option. But if they'll just end up coming back next year I might be willing to try chemicals. I also read that dropping them in soapy water does the trick, only problem is getting enough of the off the plants into the water vs onto the ground. So I doubt its a good option if I really want to get rid of them. Good to know they won't spread to other plants, I was worried about loosing another batch of spinich this year. I'm away for the weekend, so I might try some soapy water stuff tonight and then shop for some beetle killing chemicals on Monday when I get home.

sorry, I can't help with an ID you may have better response on the name that plant forum- don't forget to mention your location and which zone you're in. it could have been planted by a woodland critter Here is a link that might be useful: name that plant