Family: Malvaceae

High Risk Traits:

• Broad climate & soil tolerance
  
• Frequently introduced as ornamental
  
• Seeds cause human skin/eye irritation
  
• Can hybridize naturally

Low Risk Traits:

• No naturalization, or weedy history
  
• Not invasive; tree form, no thickets
  
• Requires full sun
  
• Low flammability
  
• Large seeds, poor natural dispersal
  
• Not a prolific seed producer
  
• No vegetative spread
  
• Slow maturation (5–8 years to flower)
  
• Specialist pollinators needed