Common Lantana
Lantana camara
Found in disturbed areas, eastwards especially near the coast. Weakley, Flora of the Southeastern United States (2025), South Central edition What its natural habitat tells you
Not native to Mississippi. 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 Mississippi.
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At a glance
- Life cycle
- Annual or perennial
- Leaves
- Deciduous or evergreen
- Bloom
- January to December
Recorded in 6 Mississippi 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?
15CaterpillarsGenus host records with ranges including MS
Genus host records with ranges including MS · 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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- Stenoptilodes taprobanesNarrow Plume Moth
- 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 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” · Weakley, Flora of the Southeastern United States (2025), Carolinas & Georgia edition · 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
| Mississippi rank | SNA |
|---|---|
| Global rank | G5 |
| MS status | Not verified |
| Federal status | Not verified |
Sources
- NatureServe Explorer
- USDA PLANTS
- Weakley, Flora of the Southeastern United States (2025)
- Mississippi 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