Family: Stilbaceae

High Risk Traits:

• Elevation range exceeds 1000 m, demonstrating environmental versatility
  
• Grows in tropical climates
  
• Naturalized in New Zealand (but no evidence from Hawaiian Islands to date)
  
• Regarded as weedy, and a potential weed of pasture, in native range
  
• Shade-tolerant
  
• Tolerates many soil types
  
• Reproduces by seeds and vegetatively by suckering
  
• Reaches reproductive maturity in 2 years
  
• Seeds dispersed by birds and intentionally by people
  
• Able to resprout after fires

Low Risk Traits:

• Unarmed (no spines, thorns, or burrs)
  
• Palatable to browsing animals
  
• Non-toxic
  
• Ornamental
  
• Primarily bird-pollinated (may limit seed set)