Family: Onagraceae

High Risk Traits:

• Broad elevation range and climate suitability
  
• Naturalized in several locations worldwide, including the Hawaiian Islands of Kauai, Maui, and Hawaii
  
• A disturbance-adapted shrub with negative environmental impacts, particularly in La Réunion (Mascarene Islands, Indian Ocean) and Australia
  
• Other Fuchsia species are invasive.
  
• Tolerates many soil types.
  
• Scrambles over other shrubs and small trees, impeding their growth.
  
• Forms dense thickets.
  
• Reproduces by seeds, and vegetatively by suckering and stem layering.
  
• Hybridizes with other Fuchsia species.
  
• Self-compatible, capable of producing seeds from self-pollination.
  
• Seeds dispersed by birds, other frugivorous animals, water, and intentionally by people.
  
• Stem fragments spread by water and in garden waste.
  
• Able to resprout after cutting unless treated with herbicide.

Low Risk Traits:

• Unarmed (no spines, thorns, or burrs)
  
• Palatable to browsing animals.
  
• Non-toxic
  
• Shade intolerant (dense shade may limit spread)
  
• Herbicides may provide effective control.