Family: Brassicaceae
High Risk Traits:
- Elevation range exceeds 1000 m, demonstrating environmental versatility
- Grows in warm temperate and tropical climates
- Widely introduced and naturalized (including Kauai, Oahu, Molokai, Maui and Hawaii islands)
- Possible aquatic environmental weed
- Other Nasturtium species have become invasive
- Pathogen host
- May be contaminated with parasites that can infect people
- Reproduces by seeds
- Hybridizes with N. officinale
- Self-compatible
- Reproduces by vegetative fragments
- Readily dispersed. Seeds and vegetative fragments dispersed in water, in mud stuck to birds, other animals, vehicles, equipment
Low Risk Traits:
- No spines, thorns or burrs
- Palatable to livestock
- Non-toxic
- Edible uses (although may be contaminated with parasites)
- Shade-intolerant