Family: Nyctaginaceae

High Risk Traits:

• Suited to tropical/subtropical climates.
  
• History of repeated introductions outside native range.
  
• Produces spines and thorns.
  
• Climbing, smothering growth habit.
  
• Can hybridize naturally.

Low Risk Traits:

• Not naturalized.
  
• Not a weed; no weedy congeners.
  
• Not toxic or allergenic.
  
• Low reproductive potential; rare seed set.
  
• Requires specialist pollinators.
  
• No vegetative fragmentation.
  
• No effective seed dispersal mechanisms.
  
• Does not form a persistent seed bank.