Family: Lamiaceae

High Risk Traits:

• Thrives in tropical climates
  
• Naturalized in Tunisia
  
• Weedy in Fiji and showing weedy tendencies in Hawaiian Islands
  
• Shade-tolerant
  
• Tolerates many soil types
  
• Climbing habit (potential to smother other plants)
  
• Thicket-forming
  
• Self-compatible
  
• Seeds dispersed by birds, water and intentionally by people
  
• Able to reproduce by suckering
  
• Tolerates pruning and able to resprout after fires

Low Risk Traits:

• Unarmed (no spines, thorns or burrs)
  
• Palatable to goats and probably other animals
  
• Non-toxic and used medicinally
  
• Ornamental
  
• Reaches maturity in 4+ years
  
• Seeds are non-dormant and unlikely to form a persistent seed bank