Family: Polemoniaceae
High Risk Traits:
- Elevation range exceeds 1000 m, and can grow in >5 hardiness zones demonstrating environmental versatility
- Naturalized on Maui, Hawaiian Islands and possibly elsewhere
- Tolerates many soil types
- Seeds dispersed by gravity, possibly water and intentionally by people
- Hybridizes with other Gilia species
- Self-compatible
- Annual. Reaches maturity in <1 year
- Seeds able to be stored for extended periods; May form a persistent seed bank
- Able to coppice and resprout after cutting
Low Risk Traits:
- Despite naturalization, no reports of negative impacts documented
- Mediterranean to temperate climate species (may only become established at higher elevations in the tropics)
- Unarmed (no spines, thorns or burrs)
- No reports of toxicity
- Ornamental
- Beneficial to bees and other pollinators
- Not reported to spread vegetatively