Family: Selaginellaceae

High Risk Traits:

• Elevation range exceeds 1000 m
  
• Widely naturalized
  
• Related Selaginella species have become invasive
  
• Shade-tolerant
  
• May slowly form a dense ground cover that could exclude other vegetation
  
• Can spread vegetatively and by spores

Low Risk Traits:

• Despite ability to spread, no negative impacts have been documented thus far
  
• Unarmed (no spines, thorns or burrs)
  
• Ornamental ground cover
  
• Non-toxic