Family: Convolvulaceae
High Risk Traits:
- Thrives in tropical climates
- Widely naturalized
- A disturbance adapted weed that can smother forestry trees and suppress native vegetation
- Related Merremia species have become invasive
- Tolerates many soil types
- Climbing vine capable of smothering other vegetation
- Tuberous
- Spreads by seeds and vegetative fragments root fragments resprout and stem fragments readily take root
Low Risk Traits:
- Shade-intolerant and may eventually be suppressed or overtopped by other vegetation
- Fodder plant
- Requires full sun
- Considered desirable in some areas for ability to suppress other weedy vegetation