Family: Fabaceae

High Risk Traits:

• Climate adaptable (tropical/subtropical)
  
• Introduced widely outside native range
  
• Nitrogen-fixing (alters soil)
  
• Bird-pollinated (specialist potential)
  
• Intentionally planted/transported

Low Risk Traits:

• No naturalization or weediness
  
• Not toxic, spiny, or allelopathic
  
• No vegetative spread or thicket formation
  
• Large seeds; low dispersal potential
  
• Low seed production
  
• Slow-growing (>4 years to maturity)