Family: Resedaceae

High Risk Traits:

• Broad climate suitability
  
• Reported to be widely cultivated and naturalized (although generally described as a garden escape)
  
• Unconfirmed reports as a pasture weed
  
• Other Reseda species are invasive
  
• Tolerates many soil types
  
• Reproduces by seeds
  
• Self-fertile
  
• Annual life cycle, reaching maturity rapidly
  
• Seeds dispersed by ants, and through intentional cultivation

Low Risk Traits:

• No confirmed reports of negative impacts where naturalized
  
• Unarmed (no spines, thorns, or burrs)
  
• Palatable to deer
  
• Grows in full sun to partial shade (dense shade may inhibit spread)
  
• Not reported to spread vegetatively