Family: Lamiaceae
High Risk Traits:
- Grows well in tropical climates
- Widely naturalized in the tropics and subtropics (but no evidence in the Hawaiian Islands to date)
- Regarded by some growers as an aggressive and weedy landscaping plant
- Other Clerodendrum species are invasive
- Tolerates many soil types
- Grows as both a shrub and a climber, with potential to overtop or smother other vegetation
- Reproduces by seeds and vegetatively by runners
- Seeds dispersed by birds and intentionally by people
- Able to regrow following sever pruning and repeated cutting
Low Risk Traits:
- Although regarded as an aggressive and weedy landscaping plant by some, other growers regard it as a desirable, and non-invasive landscaping plant
- Unarmed (no spines, thorns, or burrs)
- Non-toxic
- Herbicides effective at controlling other Clerodendrum species would likely be effective at controlling Clerodendrum thomsoniae if necessary