Family: Polemoniaceae

High Risk Traits:

• Elevation range exceeds 1000 m, and can grow in >5 hardiness zones demonstrating environmental versatility
  
• Naturalized outside native range
  
• Tolerates many soil types
  
• Self-compatible
  
• Able to reach maturity in <1 year (annual herb)
  
• Seeds dispersed passively by dehiscence and intentionally by people
  
• Small seeds could possibly be accidentally dispersed
  
• Seeds able to be stored for extended periods and show dormancy. May form a persistent seed bank
  
• Limited ecological information, particularly on dispersal vectors, makes accurate risk prediction difficult

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 hybridize with other Gilia species
  
• Not reported to spread vegetatively