Hammock Shrubverbena
Lantana canescens
Found in pine rocklands, especially rockland / hammock ecotones, hammocks, brushlands. Weakley, Flora of the Southeastern United States (2025), Florida edition What its natural habitat tells you
Native to Florida. How scores work Is it native here?
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Rare or protected plant. Specialist conservation planting; excluded from routine garden suggestions. Plant caution source
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At a glance
Not yet recorded · Height · Spread · Light · Soil · Life cycle · Leaves · Bloom
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Recorded in 1 Florida county.
Natural habitats
Places it grows wild. Not a planting requirement. Each habitat page lists the plants and wildlife also found there.
Dense, evergreen groves of live oak, magnolia and other hardwoods in the southern Coastal Plain, from dry oak domes to wet hydric hammocks and south Florida's tropical hammocks; salt-shaped maritime hammocks are maritime forests.
Who uses this plant?
22CaterpillarsGenus host records with ranges including FL
Genus host records with ranges including FL · Lantana
- Anartia jatrophaeWhite Peacock
- Chrysodeixis includensSoybean Looper Moth
- Diastema tigrisLantana Groundling, Lantana Tiger Moth
- Erechthias minusculaCaribbean Scavenger Moth
- Junonia coeniaCommon Buckeye
- Lantanophaga pusillidactylusLantana Plume Moth
- Leptostales crossiiCross's Wave
- Manduca rusticaRustic Sphinx
- Neogalea suniaLantana Stick Caterpillar, Catabena Moth
- Notioplusia illustrataNotioplusia Moth
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- Omiodes indicataBean-Leaf Webworm Moth
- Orphanostigma haemorrhoidalisLantana Leaftier
- Platynota rostranaOmnivorous Platynota
- Spragueia jaguaralisCounfounding Spragueia
- Stenoptilodes taprobanesNarrow Plume Moth
- Strymon melinusGray Hairstreak
- Synchlora cupedinariaBrown-Boarded Emerald
- Synchlora herbariaWhite-Dotted Emerald
- Thyridopteryx ephemeraeformisEvergreen Bagworm Moth
- Vanessa carduiPainted Lady, Cosmopolite
- Acalyptris bicornutus
- Anstenoptilia marmarodactyla
29BeesSoutheastern regional records
Southeastern regional records · Lantana
Individual names are not available yet.
Noori, Seltmann & Orr 2026, A curated and integrated dataset for exploring global bee-plant interactions (GloBI), Zenodo, CC BY 4.0
0Specialist beesPollen specialists
—BirdsRecorded genus food-resource interactions; not a state feeding claimNo records yet · Ants · Beetles · Flies · Adult butterflies / moths · Other wasps · Other insects
Plant details
- Family
- Verbenaceae
Conservation status
| Florida rank | S1 |
|---|---|
| Global rank | Not available |
| FL status | Not verified |
| Federal status | Not verified |
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Sources
- Atlas of Florida Plants
- Weakley, Flora of the Southeastern United States (2025), Florida edition
- NatureServe Explorer
- Shropshire & Tallamy 2025, Lepidoptera of North America north of Mexico, ZooKeys 1261 (ODbL)
- Noori, Seltmann & Orr 2026, A curated and integrated dataset for exploring global bee-plant interactions (GloBI), Zenodo, CC BY 4.0
- Smith, Bachelder, Russell, Morales, Mosher & Seltmann 2024, Bee-Specialization-Modeling v0.6.1 (specialist host table compiled from J. Fowler's pollen specialist bee lists), Zenodo, CC BY 4.0
- Hurlbert, Olsen, Sawyer & Winner 2021, Avian Diet Database, Scientific Data 8: 260 (CC0)
- Narango, Tallamy & Shropshire 2020, Few keystone plant genera support the majority of Lepidoptera species, Nature Communications