Family: Brassicaceae
Rorippa indica is an annual or biennial herbaceous plant native to parts of Asia, including India and China, but has been introduced and naturalized in many other regions around the world, including the island of Oahu, Hawaiian Islands. This plant is able to grow rapidly, self-seed, and colonize disturbed habitats, including agricultural fields, roadsides, and waste areas. It is often considered a weedy or invasive species in some regions where it may compete with desirable vegetation.
High Risk Traits:
- Broad elevation range and climate suitability.
- Grows and naturalizes in regions with tropical cliamtes.
- Potentially naturalized on Oahu, Hawaiian Islands.
- Widely naturalized elsewhere.
- A weed of disturbed habitats, roadsides, field margins, gardens, riverbanks, villages, grasslands, orchards, and fields.
- A frequently documented crop weed (of ambiguous or unknown impacts).
- Other Rorippa species are invasive weeds.
- Potentially allelopathic.
- Shade tolerant.
- Tolerates many soil types.
- May form dense, pure stands that may exclude other vegetation.
- Reproduces by seed.
- An autogamous plant, capable of producing seeds through self-pollination.
- Seeds dispersed by water, intentional cultivation, and likely through human movement and other activities.
- May exhibit resistance to certain herbicides.
Low Risk Traits:
- Unarmed (no spines, thorns, or burrs).
- Non-toxic.