Trailing lantana
Lantana montevidensis (Spreng.) Briq.
- light
- Full sun
- water
- Little
- tall
- 57 cm
- wide
- 1.2 m
Verbenaceae
Also called Creeping lantana, Purple Trailing Lantana, Trailing shrubverbena, Weeping lantana
Formerly Camara montevidensis, Camara sellowiana, Lantana decumbens, Lantana delicatissima, and 3 more
When it flowers
Flowers January to April and June to September 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
- Seasonally dry tropicalKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- Bolivia to Brazil and N. ArgentinaKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Light
- Full sun (6 h or more)Read from NC State Extension and RHS, checked by a majority of its sourcesBacked by both sources
- Height
- 41 cm to 74 cmRead from NC State Extension and RHS, checked: the middle of what its sources sayHalfway between its 2 sources, which differ. Sources differ: NC State Extension 1–1.5 ft; RHS 0.5–1 m
- Spread
- 99 cm to 1.5 mRead from NC State Extension and RHS, checked by a majority of its sourcesBacked by both sources. Sources differ: NC State Extension 3–5 ft; RHS 1–1.5 m
- Water
- Little: takes droughtRead from NC State Extension and RHS, not yet checked: its sources are splitTied: no reading has a majority of the 2 sources, so all are kept for a person to settle. Sources differ: NC State Extension low; RHS medium
- Flowers
- Pink, purpleRead from NC State Extension and RHS, checked by a majority of its sourcesBacked by both sources. Sources differ: NC State Extension pink, purple, white, yellow; RHS pink, purple
- Coldest it survives
- -1.1 °C (USDA zone 10a)Read from NC State Extension and RHS, checked: the middle of what its sources sayHalfway between its 2 sources, which differ. Sources differ: NC State Extension -12.2 °C; RHS 10 °C
Not known yet: heat, hottest it survives.
Grow it with
Suggested by a rule, not by a gardener: same climate (kew), flowering when this plant does not (inaturalist), and a different shape.
Apple-of-PeruFlowers May and October to December, when this does not
Barbados lilyFlowers May and October to December, when this does not
Billygoat weedFlowers May and October to December, when this does not
Black-eyed Susan vineFlowers May and October to December, when this does not
Blue dazeFlowers May and October to December, when this does not
Bush Morning GloryFlowers May and October to December, when this does not
In other languages (12)
- Chinese
- 小葉馬纓丹, 鋪地臭金鳳, 紫花馬纓丹
- Spanish
- verbena rastrera, salvia del Uruguay
- Japanese
- コバノランタナ, コバノコウオウカ, コバノシチヘンゲ
- Russian
- Лантана монтевидейская
- Afrikaans
- Rankende Lantana, Kruipende Lantana, Treurlantana
- Chinese (China)
- 蔓马缨丹
- Hebrew
- לנטנה עדינה
- Danish
- blå ildkrone
- Finnish
- pikkutulikruunu
- Lithuanian
- Raudonoji lantana
- Slovak
- lantana montevidejská
- Turkish
- Ağlayan Mine
Where this comes from
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-24, CC0-1.0 (observation counts)
- Wikidata, read 2026-10-24, CC0-1.0
- Kew's checklist, read 2026-10-24, CC-BY-4.0
- NC State Extension, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- RHS, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-24, CC BY-SA 3.0
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- 3D model: Lantana montevidensis (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.