Family: Poaceae

High Risk Traits:

• Broad climate suitability (temperate to tropical)
  
• Naturalized elsewhere
  
• A weedy, disturbance-adapted grass that impacts native biodiversity where invasive
  
• May also negatively impact pasture productivity
  
• Other Bothriochloa species are invasive
  
• Potentially allelopathic
  
• Host of crop pests and pathogens
  
• May increase fire risk where invasive
  
• Tolerates many soil types
  
• Can form monocultures, inhibiting growth or establishment of other species
  
• Reproduces by seeds and vegetatively by stolons or rhizomes
  
• Hybridizes with other species
  
• Apomictic
  
• Seeds disperse along roads, possibly by wind and water, and intentionally cultivated
  
• Prolific seed production
  
• Tolerates heavy grazing, mowing and fire

Low Risk Traits:

• Unarmed (no spines, thorns, or burrs)
  
• Valued as a palatable pasture species (grazed by cattle and sheep)
  
• Non-toxic
  
• Shade-intolerant (dense shade may inhibit spread)
  
• Not reported to form a persistent seed bank
  
• Herbicides may provide effective control