Family: Commelinaceae

High Risk Traits:

• Thrives in tropical climates and tolerates many climates
  
• Widely naturalized
  
• A disturbance adapted weed
  
• Environmental weed that competes with and excludes native vegetation
  
• Other Tradescantia species have become highly invasive
  
• Sap often causes a skin irritation
  
• Shade-tolerant
  
• Can form a dense, smothering groundcover
  
• Spreads vegetatively
  
• Can reproduce and spread from single pieces of stem or root fragments
  
• Stem fragments spread by garden waste, water, and machinery
  
• Certain herbicides may not provide effective control

Low Risk Traits:

• Values as an ornamental plant
  
• Unarmed (no spines, thorns or burrs)
  
• May have limited or no seed production in introduced range
  
• Self-incompatible