Family: Polygonaceae

High Risk Traits:

• Naturalized and invasive outside native range
  
• Suited to tropical/subtropical climates
  
• History of repeated introductions
  
• Agricultural and environmental weed
  
• Climbing/smothering growth habit
  
• Reproduces by seeds and vegetatively (tubers)
  
• Multiple dispersal pathways (human, water, animal)
  
• Resprouts from tubers after damage

Low Risk Traits:

• No spines, thorns, or burrs
  
• Not allelopathic, parasitic, or toxic
  
• Not shade tolerant
  
• Doesn't form dense thickets