Common Lantana
Lantana strigocamara
Found in disturbed areas, eastwards especially near the coast. FloraQuest, phone app (app page) What its natural habitat tells you
Not native to Florida. How scores work Is it native here?
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- Height
- 1–6 feet
- Spread
- 3–5 feet
- Light
- Full sun
- Soil moisture
- Somewhat dry to moist
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Do not plant. Listed invasive in Florida.
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At a glance
- Life cycle
- Annual or perennial
- Leaves
- Deciduous or evergreen
- Bloom
- January to December
Recorded in 61 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.
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
—BeesSoutheastern regional records
—Specialist beesPollen specialists
—BirdsRecorded genus food-resource interactions; not a state feeding claimPlant details
- Family
- Verbenaceae
- Hardiness
- Zones 7a–11b
- Soil pH
- Neutral
- Flower color
- Yellow, orange, pink, purple or white
Safety has not been reviewed for this plant; check toxicity and thorns before planting.
Growing sources and scope
- Bloom · “January to December” · FloraQuest: Carolinas, Georgia (Southeastern Flora Team), phone app (app page) · Carolinas and Georgia
- Flower color · “Yellow, orange, pink, purple or white” · NC Extension Plant Toolbox
- Hardiness · “Zones 7a–11b” · NC Extension Plant Toolbox
- Height · “1–6 feet” · NC Extension Plant Toolbox
- Leaves · “Deciduous or evergreen” · NC Extension Plant Toolbox
- Life cycle · “Annual or perennial” · NC Extension Plant Toolbox
- Light · “Full sun (6 or more hours of direct sunlight a day)” · NC Extension Plant Toolbox
- Soil · “Moist; Occasionally dry” · NC Extension Plant Toolbox
- Soil pH · “Neutral” · NC Extension Plant Toolbox
- Spread · “3–5 feet” · NC Extension Plant Toolbox
Also known as
Lantana camara
Conservation status
| Florida rank | SNA |
|---|---|
| Global rank | G5 |
| FL status | Not verified |
| Federal status | Not verified |
Sources
- Atlas of Florida Plants
- Florida Invasive Species Council list
- USDA PLANTS
- 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