Family: Cleomaceae
High Risk Traits:
- Elevation range exceeds 1000 m, demonstrating environmental versatility
- Thrives in tropical climates
- Widely naturalized (including all main Hawaiian Islands)
- Agricultural crop weed
- Other Cleome species are weedy and invasive
- Host for crop pests and pathogens
- Tolerates many soil types
- Self-compatible
- Produces viable seeds that are small and that may be dispersed by a number of different vectors
- Able to reach maturity in one growing season (annual)
- Seeds may form a persistent seed bank
- Tolerates repeated harvesting of leaves
Low Risk Traits:
- Unarmed (no spines, thorns or burrs)
- Palatable to animals and people
- Provides fodder for livestock
- Grows in full sun
- Non-toxic
- Not reported to spread vegetatively
- Herbicides may provide effective control