Texas Wildbuds
Lantana strigocamara
(Lantana)
Lantana strigocamara, Goose Island State Park, Aransas Co. 7155
Lantana strigocamara, Goose Island State Park, Aransas Co. 7152
Lantana strigocamara, Goose Island State Park, Aransas Co. 7126
Lantana strigocamara, Goose Island State Park, Aransas Co. 7132
Lantana strigocamara, Goose Island State Park, Aransas Co. 7129
| Scientific Name | Lantana strigocamara (Lantana camara) | USDA PLANTS Symbol | LAST |
| Common Name | Lantana | ITIS Taxonomic Serial No. | 32175 |
| Family | Verbenaceae (Verbena) | SEINet Reference |
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| Description | Habitat: Roadsides, fencerows, thickets, waste and disturbed areas, pastures, suburban forest edges; very invasive. Indigenous to Central America and the West Indies. Plant: Sprawling to upright, many-branched woody shrub 3 to 6 ft. (or more) tall, often forms dense thickets; stems are square and may have small prickles. Leaves: Opposite, ovate with a rounded, truncate, or cordate, base, 2 to 4-1/3 inches long and 1 to 2-3/4 inches wide; surfaces roughly hairy; blunt-toothed; strongly aromatic. Inflorescence: Small flowers in dense clusters up to about 1+ inches across on peduncles 0.8 to 3.1 inches long; corollas with 4 or 5 irregular lobes, darkening in color with age, generally changing from white with yellow throats to pink or lavender, or yellow to orange or red; bractlets are oblong or narrow-lanceolate. 1/8 to 1/4-inch long and hairy and about half as long as the corolla tube. Bloom Period: July to frost. References: Taxonomy of Lantana: Taxonomic Revision by Roger W. Sanders, Native Plant Society of Texas and University of Florida; L. camara in "Manual of the Vascular Plants of Texas" by Correll and Johnston and Missouri Botanical Garden. |
BONAP Distribution Map Map Color Key | Texas Status: Introduced INVASIVE |
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