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Soil composition, access to water, temperature/seasons, mountains, salt water, etc.
It needs nutrients, water and heat, without access to that it just doesn't grow or spread fast, or at all. So it can't cross the deserts on its own. It can't grow above a certain sea level so it can't cross the mountains(Pandas regularly have to climb down the mountains to get more access to bamboo)., it can't use salt water, it can't grow if it gets too cold for long periods of time and so on. It's just fast growing in ideal enviroments.
The big horror stories in regards to gardning, isn't that it throws seeds around and just grows everywhere. It's that once one seed as taken root, it will start growing rhizomes. Which are similar to roots, except it's a stem that grows horizontally underground. And famously bamboo stems will grow through most things very quickly. So if you don't put up a proper root barrier, they will grow across the nearby lawns and start sprouting roots and and shoots. And from what I remember each shoot can grow more rhizomes, so you have to basically dig up the entire area or use strong plant killing agents and go without a plants in the area for a while.