Family: Plantaginaceae
High Risk Traits:
- Broad climate suitability (but not tropical)
- Widely naturalized
- Considered weeded
- Related Antirrhinum species have become invasive
- Possibly unpalatable to animals
- Tolerates many soil types
- Reaches maturity in under 1 year
- Prolific seed production
- Small seeds spread by wind and possibly other vectors
Low Risk Traits:
- Grows in temperate and Mediterranean climates
- Despite designation as weedy, no evidence of negative or detrimental impacts have been explicitly demonstrated
- May require full sun
- Ornamental flowers
- Self-incompatible (although certain cultivars reported to be self-compatible)
- Herbicides may provide effective control