Family: Malvaceae

High Risk Traits:

• Grows, and capable of spreading in regions with tropical climates
  
• Naturalized or escaped from cultivation in SE Asia (no evidence in Hawaiian Islands to date)
  
• Other species have become invasive
  
• Tolerates many soil types
  
• Reproduces by seeds and cuttings
  
• Self-fertile
  
• Capable of reaching maturity in one year or more
  
• Seeds dispersed by humans (intentionally and possibly unintentionally)
  
• Seeds able to be stored for extended periods; May form a persistent seed bank
  
• Tolerates and resprouts after heavy pruning

Low Risk Traits:

• Despite some references of weediness, no negative impacts have been documented where cultivated
  
• Unarmed (no spines, thorns, or burrs)
  
• Foliage palatable to animals and people
  
• Not reported to spread vegetatively
  
• Herbicides provide effective control of Hibiscus if needed