Family: Fabaceae

High Risk Traits:

• Broad climate suitability
  
• Grows in tropical climates
  
• Weakly naturalized in disturbed sites in urban areas of Arizona
  
• Considered a woody weed in parts of the Channel country in north?western Queensland (impacts unspecified)
  
• Other Acacia species are invasive
  
• Tolerates many soil types
  
• Forms dense, monospecific stands along rivers in native range
  
• N-fixing (may alter soil chemistry)
  
• Reproduces by seeds and vegetatively by suckering
  
• Seeds dispersed by water and intentionally by people
  
• Able to coppice and resprout after cutting

Low Risk Traits:

• Unarmed (no spines, thorns, or burrs)
  
• Provides fodder for livestock
  
• Non-toxic
  
• Ornamental
  
• Requires full sun
  
• Herbicides may provide effective control