Family: Lamiaceae

High Risk Traits:

• Elevation range exceeds 1000 m, demonstrating environmental versatility
  
• Can grow in tropical climates
  
• Widely naturalized (but no evidence in Hawaiian Islands]
  
• Weedy in gardens and disturbed habitats
  
• Other Nepeta species are invasive
  
• Potentially allelopathic
  
• Unpalatable to browsing animals
  
• Tolerates many soil types
  
• Reproduces by seeds and vegetatively
  
• Self-compatible
  
• Small seeds dispersed inadvertently as a contaminant, and along heavily trafficked areas; also intentionally cultivated
  
• Seeds able to be stored for extended periods; May form a persistent seed bank

Low Risk Traits:

• Unarmed (no spines, thorns or burrs)
  
• Cultivated intentionally for medicinal effects on cats
  
• Herbicides and mowing may provide effective control