Family: Lamiaceae

High Risk Traits:

• Elevation range exceeds 1000 m, demonstrating environmental versatility
  
• Grows in tropical climates
  
• Naturalizing on Kauai, Hawaiian Islands, and New Zealand
  
• Described as an aggressive plant that tends to spread and may become invasive
  
• Unpalatable to most grazing animals
  
• Potentially toxic
  
• Shade-tolerant
  
• Tolerates many soil types
  
• Reproduces by seeds and vegetatively by suckers
  
• Seeds dispersed by birds and intentionally by people
  
• Resprouts after cutting or severe pruning

Low Risk Traits:

• Unarmed (no spines, thorns or burrs)
  
• Ornamental
  
• Self-incompatible