Among plants, recently formed allopolyploid hybrids typify many weed species. Thus, invasion potential in plants might be somewhat predictable given that spontaneous hybridization. Polyploid hybrids in plants tend to have greater fitness than do diploid hybrids, possibly because of increased heterozygosity and reduced inbreeding depression. Also much genetic variation could arise from multiple origins of polyploidy within allopolyploid ‘species’, and the prevalence of genomic rearrangements.