Lantana montevidensis

Lantana montevidensis
inflorescence
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
(unranked):	Angiosperms
(unranked):	Eudicots
(unranked):	Asterids
Order:	Lamiales
Family:	Verbenaceae
Genus:	Lantana
Species:	L. montevidensis
Binomial name
Lantana montevidensis (Spreng.) Briq.
Synonyms
Lantana sellowiana Lippia montevidensis

Lantana montevidensis is a species of lantana known by many common names, such as: trailing lantana, weeping lantana, creeping lantana, small lantana, purple lantana or trailing shrubverbena.

This lantana is native to South America.

Description

Lantana montevidensis is a small strongly scented flowering low shrub with oval-shaped green leaves. With support it have a climbing 'vine' form, when on edge a trailing form, and on the flat a groundcover form..

The inflorescence is a circular head of several purple to lavender to yellow funnel-shaped flowers with lobed corollas each nearly a centimeter wide.

The fruit consists of a pair of nutlets surrounded by flesh somewhat like a berry.

Blossoms and foliage.

Trailing down a wall.

Cultivation

Lantana montevidensis is also cultivated as an ornamental plant for its plentiful colorful lavender to purple flowers and as a drought tolerant groundcover, woody vine, and trailing plant for containers and in the ground.

In temperate climates there are flowers most the year, with yellow blooming and variegated leaved cultivars also available.

Invasive species

The plant is present nearly worldwide as an introduced species of garden and landscape plant, and in some areas, such as parts of Australia and Hawaii, now a noxious weed and invasive species. This plant is toxic to livestock.

External links

• Jepson Manual Treatment
• USDA Plants Profile
• GRIN Species Profile
• Weed Status