Desmanthus bicornutus is a species of flowering plant in the legume family native to northern and central Mexico and the southwestern United States.

[4] A small, upright-standing shrub that grows to about 3 meters in height, Desmanthus bicornutus has a woody base.

It bears up to a dozen edible linear pods on fruiting stalks up to 5 cm long.

[4] This species typically dies back to its base during winter or dry season and refoliates when conditions become favorable again.

Although it grows abundantly as a weed in its native area and may be a potential invasive species, 14-year-old experimental plots of D. bicornutus in western Queensland have not overgrown their boundaries.