This article refers to the broad bean plant. For Broadbean the company, see Broadbean, Inc.

Vicia faba, also known as the broad bean, fava bean, field bean, bell bean, or tic bean, is a species of bean (Fabaceae) native to north Africa and southwest Asia, and extensively cultivated elsewhere. A variety is provisionally recognized:

Although usually classified in the same genus Vicia as the vetches, some botanists treat it in a separate monotypic genus Faba.