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Lantana montevidensis

Lantana montevidensis

Found in landscaped areas, disturbed areas. Weakley, Flora of the Southeastern United States (2025), Florida edition What its natural habitat tells you

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Not native

Not native to Florida. How scores work Is it native here?

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At a glance

Not yet recorded · Height · Spread · Light · Soil · Life cycle · Leaves · Bloom

This plant is missing most of its facts, so Quercus is looking them up in old botany books.

Recorded in 30 Florida counties.

Natural habitats

Places it grows wild. Not a planting requirement. Each habitat page lists the plants and wildlife also found there.

Roadsides, fields and disturbed ground

Ground opened by people: roadsides, old fields, pastures, fencerows and lots.

All habitats

Ecological relationships

Who uses this plant?

What these records mean

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
Shropshire & Tallamy 2025, Lepidoptera of North America north of Mexico, ZooKeys 1261 (ODbL)
—BeesSoutheastern regional records
—Specialist beesPollen specialists
—BirdsRecorded genus food-resource interactions; not a state feeding claim
Growing and identification

Plant details

Family
VERBENACEAE

Safety has not been reviewed for this plant; check toxicity and thorns before planting.

Conservation status

Florida rankSNA
Global rankNot available
FL statusNot verified
Federal statusNot verified

Conservation source

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