Lantana
ಲಂಟಾನஉண்ணிச்செடிతలంబ్రాలు చెట్టు
Lantana camara L.
- light
- Full sun
- water
- Little
- tall
- 1.5 m
- wide
- 1.2 m
Verbenaceae
Also called Common lantana, Spanish flag, West Indian Lantana, Cherrypie, Curse of India
Formerly Camara vulgaris
When it flowers
Flowers all year in the tropics.
Read from iNaturalist photographs of it in flower. A month counts at 50% of the best month's flowering share (smoothed over three months) and 10% of its flowering count, from at least 100 flowering observations in the band.
If a child, a pet or anyone may have eaten a plant, contact a doctor or vet straight away, or call the National Poisons Information Centre (AIIMS, New Delhi) on 1800 116 117, free and open 24 hours.
Something wrong with it?About it
- Grows as
- Subshrub or shrubKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- SubtropicalKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- Mexico to Trop. AmericaKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Light
- Full sun (6 h or more)Read from NC State Extension and UF/IFAS, checked by a majority of its sourcesBacked by both sources
- Height
- 1.2 m to 1.9 mRead from NC State Extension and Wikipedia, checked: the middle of what its sources sayHalfway between its 2 sources, which differ. Sources differ: NC State Extension 1–6 ft; Wikipedia 2–2 m
- Spread
- 91 cm to 1.5 mRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Water
- Little: takes droughtRead from NC State Extension, Wikipedia and UF/IFAS, checked by a majority of its sourcesBacked by all 3 sources
- Flowers
- Yellow, orange, pink, white, redRead from NC State Extension, Wikipedia and UF/IFAS, checked by a majority of its sourcesBacked by 2 of 3 sources. Sources differ: NC State Extension orange, pink, purple, white, yellow; Wikipedia orange, pink, red, white, yellow; UF/IFAS magenta, orange, pink, red, yellow
- Coldest it survives
- -9.5 °C (USDA zone 8b)Read from NC State Extension and Wikipedia, checked: the middle of what its sources sayHalfway between its 2 sources, which differ. Sources differ: NC State Extension -17.8 °C; Wikipedia -1.1 °C
Not known yet: heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (12)
- German
- Wandelröschen
- root
- chancaca xiuitl, Meshengua, Pitzinteuhxochitl
- myn
- petel-k'in
- Spanish
- Cinco negritos, Bandera española, Camará
- Portuguese
- Lantana, Camará, Camará-juba
- Chinese
- 馬櫻丹, 馬纓丹, 五龍蘭
- Chinese (China)
- 马缨丹, 五色梅
- Hawaiian
- laʻa kalakala
- Russian
- Лантана сводчатая
- Estonian
- ogaline lantaan
- Japanese
- ランタナ, シチヘンゲ, 七変化
- Arabic
- لانتانا مقوسة, أم كلثوم
Where this comes from
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-24, CC0-1.0 (observation counts)
- Wikidata, read 2026-10-26, CC0-1.0
- Kew's checklist, read 2026-10-24, CC-BY-4.0
- NC State Extension Plant Toolbox, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- UF/IFAS, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikipedia, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-24, CC BY-SA 3.0
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC0
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- 3D model: Lantana camara (built for Vanagrha) by Vanagrha, own
A fact “checked by a majority of its sources” was settled by a vote of the pages it was read from, not by a person reading it; one marked “one source” rests on that page alone. Anything else not marked checked has not been checked yet. Where nothing is known, the page says so rather than guess.