Family: Malvaceae

High Risk Traits:

• Broad climate suitability (wide elevation range)
  
• Congeneric weed (other Hibiscus species are agricultural weeds)
  
• Intentionally dispersed by people (ornamental)
  
• Propagules may attach to animals (aristate capsules)

Low Risk Traits:

• No environmental weed status
  
• No spines, toxicity, allelopathy, or parasitism
  
• Not shade tolerant, climbing, or thicket-forming
  
• No prolific seed production or vegetative fragmentation
  
• No wind, water, bird, or gut-mediated dispersal