Family: Araceae
High Risk Traits:
- Grows in tropical climates
- Pantropical, and widely naturalized, including Kauai, Oahu, Molokai, and Maui
- An agricultural and environmental weed
- Forms dense cover in water bodies
- Reproduces by seeds and vegetatively
- Able to reproduce within first growing season
- Seeds and vegetative fragments spread by water, attached to boats or other water craft, and possibly externally by animals
- Prolific seed production
- Seeds may persist in the soil
Low Risk Traits:
- Unarmed (no spines, thorns or burrs)
- Palatable to animals (possible food source)
- Non-toxic
- Ornamental
- Self-incompatible
- Herbicides may provide effective control