Family: Acanthaceae

High Risk Traits:

• Naturalized weed in tropics/subtropics
  
• Tolerates varied soils, drought, and shade
  
• Repeatedly introduced as ornamental
  
• Reproduces by seed and vegetatively
  
• Tolerates cutting/mutilation
  
• Forms persistent seed bank
  
• Smothers low vegetation
  
• Host to crop pest nematodes

Low Risk Traits:

• No spines/thorns/burrs
  
• Not parasitic or allelopathic
  
• Palatable to livestock
  
• Non-toxic to animals/humans
  
• Poor natural dispersal (no wind/water/bird dispersal)
  
• Controllable with herbicides/grazing