Family: Fabaceae

High Risk Traits:

• Elevation range exceeds 2000 m in tropical latitudes, demonstrating environmental versatility
  
• Thrives in tropical climates
  
• Reportedly naturalized (or persisting from cultivation) in Brazil, New Zealand and possibly elsewhere (but no evidence in the Hawaiian Islands to date)
  
• Possibly allelopathic
  
• Raw seeds may be toxic
  
• Tolerates many soil types
  
• Climbing and potentially smothering growth habit
  
• Tuberous roots (may allow plants to persist and regrow after damage or removal of above-ground vegetation)
  
• Reproduces by seeds
  
• Self-fertile
  
• Perennial, but able to reach maturity in <1 growing season
  
• Seeds dispersed by people
  
• Seeds hard coated and able to be stored for several years; likely to form a persistent seed bank

Low Risk Traits:

• A domesticated plant known only from cultivation
  
• No evidence of negative impacts due to cultivation
  
• Unarmed (no spines, thorns, or burrs)
  
• Provides fodder for livestock
  
• Require full sunlight (could limit ability to spread into intact forests)
  
• Edible to humans
  
• Not reported to spread vegetatively
  
• Relatively large pods and seeds unlikely to be inadvertently dispersed