Family: Fabaceae

High Risk Traits:

• Thrives in tropical climates
  
• Reported as a weed within native range (unverified)
  
• Other species have become invasive
  
• Spiny
  
• Seeds reported to be toxic to humans (toxicity to animals unknown)
  
• Tolerates many soil types
  
• N-fixing (may alter soil chemistry)
  
• Reproduces by seeds
  
• May be self-compatible
  
• Seeds probably dispersed by water and intentionally by people
  
• Seeds able to be stored for extended periods; May form a persistent seed bank

Low Risk Traits:

• No reports of naturalization
  
• Palatable to browsing animals (e.g. feral camels)
  
• Ornamental
  
• Not reported to spread vegetatively
  
• Seeds relatively large and unlikely to be accidentally dispersed