Family: Convolvulaceae

High Risk Traits:

• Elevation range exceeds 1000 m, demonstrating environmental versatility
  
• Thrives in tropical climates
  
• Possibly naturalizing on Kauai, and naturalized on Maui and Hawaii, Hawaiian Islands. Also naturalized in other tropical locations
  
• Regarded as a weed of fruit tree groves (no impacts reported)
  
• Climbing and smothering growth habit
  
• Tolerates many soil types
  
• Reproduces by seeds and vegetatively
  
• Seeds dispersed by gravity and intentionally by people

Low Risk Traits:

• Unarmed (no spines, thorns or burrs)
  
• Non-toxic
  
• Ornamental
  
• Seed production may be limited or absent in the Hawaiian Islands
  
• Limited or absent seed production in the Hawaiian Islands reduces risk of accidental dispersal