Family: Malvaceae

High Risk Traits:

• Tolerates many soil types
  
• Reproduces by seed
  
• Seeds may form a persistent seed bank
  
• Resistant to fire, coppicing, and pollarding

Low Risk Traits:

• No evidence of naturalization.
  
• Not parasitic, toxic, or allelopathic.
  
• Lacks spines and does not form thickets.
  
• No unintentional dispersal mechanisms.
  
• Low seed production.