Lantana camara cv.

Lantana, largeleaf lantana, common lantana, kamara lantana, wild sage, red sage, yellow sage, white sage, shrub verbena

About plant names...

Lantana is native to Mexico, parts of the Caribbean, Central America, Venezuela, and Colombia. It has been introduced as an ornamental plant to many other tropical and subtropical areas of the world, where it has become naturalized and, often, invasive.

Plants: Evergreen shrubs, 3-4' (91-121 cm) high (rarely up to 6' (1.8 m)) and 12-36" (30-91 cm) around, able to grow higher still by clambering over other plants.

Leaves: opposite, 2-5" (5-12 cm) × 1-2" (2.5-5 cm), rough-surfaced, ovate, with crenate edges. Stems and leaves are hairy. When crushed, they emit an unpleasant odor, likened, among other undesirable odors, to cat urine.

Flowers: Flowers form hemispherical umbels 1-2" (2.5-5 cm) in size. Each umbel is composed of flowers that are ¼-⅜" (6.3-9.5 mm) around, 5-petaled, held in neat, crowded, undeniably beautiful arrays. Making them even more attractive is their spectrum of colors, ranging from whites to yellows to pinks to oranges to reds to purples, mixed within even single umbels and changing in color as they age. They bloom from July to first frost, nearly continuously in frost-free areas.

Fruits: Fruits are purple-black drupes (berries), ~³/₁₆" (5-6 mm) in size.

Edibility: Poisonous Foliage is poisonous to people, as well as to grazing animals. It contains alkaloids, called pentacyclic triterpenoids, that cause liver damage and photosensitivity. Berries are edible when ripe; poisonous when unripe.

Online References:

Floridata.com

The Missouri Botanical Garden

Florida Nature

Www.carolinanature.com

Hawaiian Plants and Tropical Flowers

Www.tropical-biology.org

8/16/2009 · Joan & Jim’s, Mansfield, Mass­a­chu­setts
≈ 5 × 3½" (13 × 9.2 cm) ID is uncertain

8/31/2013 · Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden, Richmond, Virginia
≈ 6 × 4½" (14 × 11 cm) ID is uncertain

5/24/2009 · Arizona Sonora Desert Museum, Tucson, Ari­zona
≈ 2½ × 2" (6.2 × 5.9 cm) ID is uncertain

5/24/2009 · Arizona Sonora Desert Museum, Tucson, Ari­zona
≈ 4½ × 3" (11 × 7.9 cm) ID is uncertain

8/16/2009 · Joan & Jim’s, Mansfield, Mass­a­chu­setts
≈ 5 × 8" (13 × 19 cm) ID is uncertain

8/31/2013 · Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden, Richmond, Virginia
≈ 8 × 5" (19 × 12 cm) ID is uncertain

Lantana camara cv. description by Thomas H. Kent, last updated 25 May 2020.

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8/31/2013 · Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden, Richmond, Virginia
≈ 31 × 21" (79 × 53 cm) ID is uncertain

8/31/2013 · Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden, Richmond, Virginia
≈ 10 × 7" (25 × 16 cm) ID is uncertain

5/6/2014 · American Southwest (AZ or TX) · By Jacquelyn Boyt

8/31/2013 · Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden, Richmond, Virginia
≈ 8 × 5" (19 × 12 cm) ID is uncertain

5/25/2009 · Boyce Thompson Arboretum, Superior, Ari­zona
≈ 3 × 2½" (8.4 × 7 cm) ID is uncertain

8/31/2013 · Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden, Richmond, Virginia
≈ 9 × 6" (22 × 15 cm) ID is uncertain

8/29/2010 · Public Garden, Mansfield, Mass­a­chu­setts
≈ 24 × 16" (62 × 41 cm) ID is uncertain

8/31/2013 · Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden, Richmond, Virginia
≈ 9 × 6" (22 × 15 cm) ID is uncertain

8/16/2009 · Joan & Jim’s, Mansfield, Mass­a­chu­setts
≈ 4½ × 3" (11 × 7.9 cm) ID is uncertain

8/31/2013 · Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden, Richmond, Virginia
≈ 8 × 5" (19 × 12 cm) ID is uncertain

Can anybody identify the moth? · 8/31/2013 · Butterflies Live! Exhibiit, Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden, Richmond, Virginia
≈ 9 × 7" (22 × 17 cm) ID is uncertain

Range: Zones 10-11:

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