Family: Fabaceae

High Risk Traits:

• Widely naturalized
  
• High invasive environmental weed
  
• Potentially allelopathic
  
• Thicket-forming
  
• Hybridizes with other Acacia species
  
• Tolerates many soil conditions (and potentially able to exploit many different habitat types)
  
• Self-compatible
  
• Forms root suckers
  
• Seeds dispersed accidentally and by water, birds, ants and possibly wind
  
• Prolific seed production
  
• Forms persistent seed bank
  
• Resprouts after cutting
  
• Tolerates fires

Low Risk Traits:

• Palatable to animals
  
• Ornamental value
  
• Possibly Shade-intolerant
  
• Herbicides provide effective control