Family: Fabaceae

High Risk Traits:

• Able to grow in tropical climates
  
• Other Erythrina species have become invasive
  
• Large prickles or thorns on leaf midrib and veins
  
• Contains alkaloids that have powerful narcotic and purgative effects
  
• Nitrogen fixing
  
• Geophyte
  
• Reproduces by seeds
  
• Able to reach maturity in two years of growth
  
• Seeds dispersed by water and intentionally by people
  
• Resprouts after fires

Low Risk Traits:

• No reports of invasiveness or naturalization
  
• Ornamental
  
• Not reported to spread vegetatively
  
• Seeds relatively large and unlikely to be accidentally dispersed