Family: Fabaceae

High Risk Traits:

• Able to grow in temperate to subtropical climates
  
• Naturalizing outside native range in Australia
  
• Several Acacia species have become invasive
  
• Tolerates many soil types
  
• Forms pure stands and thickets in native range
  
• N-fixing tree (may alter soil chemstry)
  
• Reproduces by seeds and vegetatively by root suckers
  
• Self-compatible (but requires pollinators for pollen transfer)
  
• Seeds dispersed by gravity, water, internally by animals and intentionally by people
  
• Seeds able to be stored for extended periods; May form a persistent seed bank
  
• Able to coppice and resprout after cutting, browsing and fire

Low Risk Traits:

• No current reports of naturalization or invasiveness outside native range
  
• Unarmed (no spines, thorns, or burrs)
  
• Provides fodder for livestock
  
• Non-toxic
  
• Ornamental
  
• Slow growing (may take years before reaching reproductive maturity)
  
• Herbicides effectively control several other invasive Acacia species, and would presumably be effective if needed to control Acacia pendula