Buttonsage
Lantana involucrata
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Not scored
Native status unresolved in Louisiana. 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.
County records are not available.
Ecological relationships
Who uses this plant?
14CaterpillarsGenus host records with ranges including LA
Genus host records with ranges including LA · Lantana
- Chrysodeixis includensSoybean Looper Moth
- Diastema tigrisLantana Groundling, Lantana Tiger Moth
- Junonia coeniaCommon Buckeye
- Leptostales crossiiCross's Wave
- Manduca rusticaRustic Sphinx
- Neogalea suniaLantana Stick Caterpillar, Catabena Moth
- Omiodes indicataBean-Leaf Webworm Moth
- Orphanostigma haemorrhoidalisLantana Leaftier
- Platynota rostranaOmnivorous Platynota
- Spragueia jaguaralisCounfounding Spragueia
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- Strymon melinusGray Hairstreak
- Synchlora cupedinariaBrown-Boarded Emerald
- Thyridopteryx ephemeraeformisEvergreen Bagworm Moth
- Vanessa carduiPainted Lady, Cosmopolite
—BeesSoutheastern regional records
—Specialist beesPollen specialists
—BirdsRecorded genus food-resource interactions; not a state feeding claimGrowing and identification
Plant details
- Family
- Verbenaceae
What its natural habitat tells you
Safety has not been reviewed for this plant; check toxicity and thorns before planting.
Conservation status
| Louisiana rank | SNR |
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| Global rank | Not available |
| LA status | Not verified |
| Federal status | Not verified |
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Sources
- Weakley, Flora of the Southeastern United States (2025)
- Louisiana occurrence source
- 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