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West Indian shrubverbena

Lantana urticoides

Also called Texas Lantana, Calico Bush

West Indian shrubverbena
Photo: Dick Culbert from Gibsons, B.C., Canada, CC BY 2.0
Family
Verbenaceae (Verbena family)
Grows as
Shrub, Perennial
Native range
SC. U.S.A. to Mexico
Climate
subtropical

About

Lantana urticoides, also known as Texas Lantana, is a three- to five-foot perennial shrub that grows in Mexico and the U.S. states of Texas, Louisiana and Mississippi especially along the Gulf coast. The plant can blossom from spring until the first frost. It is a species of flowering plant within the verbena family, Verbenaceae.

Other Lantana plants

Brushland shrubverbena · Lantana alainii · Lantana · Lantana horrida · Buttonsage · Trailing shrubverbena · Lantana pastazensis · Threeleaf shrubverbena · Lantanas

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Lantana urticoides by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.

Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.

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