Family: Commelinaceae

High Risk Traits:

• Thrives in tropical climates
  
• Widely naturalized
  
• Garden weed
  
• Environmental weed
  
• Other Tradescantia species have become invasive
  
• Toxic to animals and people if consumed; sap causes dermatitis
  
• Shade-tolerant
  
• Tolerates many soil types
  
• Forms dense ground cover that excludes other vegetation
  
• Reproduces by seeds and vegetatively
  
• Self-compatible
  
• Seeds dispersed by wing and intentionally by people
  
• Damaged plants easily resprout from the root

Low Risk Traits:

• Unarmed (no spines, thorns or burrs)
  
• Ornamental
  
• Seeds do not store well and may not form a persistent seed bank
  
• Herbicides might provide effective control