Family: Blechnaceae
High Risk Traits:
- Able to grow in temperate to subtropical climates
- Reported as a greenhouse escape in Poland
- Shade-tolerant
- Reproduces by spores and vegetatively by adventitious bulbils
- Spores dispersed by wind and possibly water
- Intentionally propagated
- Presumably prolific spore production
Low Risk Traits:
- No reported of naturalization or invasiveness to date
- Cultivated, but not reported as naturalized, in Hawaiian Islands
- Unarmed (no spines, thorns or burrs)
- Non-toxic
- Ornamental