Family: Poaceae

High Risk Traits:

• Thrives in tropical climates
  
• Widely naturalized
  
• Disturbance weed
  
• An agricultural weed
  
• Related Chloris species have become invasive
  
• Potentially allelopathic
  
• Loses palatability when older
  
• Host of a number of rice insect pests and diseases
  
• Annual (reaches maturity in one growing season)
  
• Seeds dispersed by wind, birds and people (through external adhesion)
  
• Capable of spreading vegetatively by rooting at lower nodes
  
• Can produce large numbers of seeds

Low Risk Traits:

• Requires full sun
  
• New growth palatable to animals
  
• Herbicides may provide effective control