Family: Lamiaceae
High Risk Traits:
- Thrives in tropical climates
- Elevation range exceeds 1000 m (environmental versatility)
- Widely naturalized
- An disturbance, or garden weed
- Other Plectranthus species have become invasive
- Spreads vegetatively by plant fragments
- Starts to spread vegetatively in under 1 year
- May rarely produce seeds
Low Risk Traits:
- Rarely produces seeds, and not reported to produce seeds in the Hawaiian Islands
- Requires full sun
- Edible to livestock and people
- Lack of seed production makes long distance and inadvertent dispersal unlikely