- Plants
- ›Vascular Plants
- ›flowering plants
- ›Dicots
- ›Mints, Plantains, Olives, and Allies
- ›Verbena Family
- ›Lantaneae

Lantanas
Lantana
Lantana is a genus of about 150 species of perennial flowering plants in the verbena family, Verbenaceae. They are native to tropical regions of the Americas and Africa but exist as an introduced species in numerous areas, especially in the Australian-Pacific region, South and Northeastern part of India. The genus includes both herbaceous plants and shrubs growing to 0.5–2 m (1.6–6.6 ft) tall. Their common names are shrub verbenas or lantanas. The generic name originated in Late Latin,...
60 branches of this genus, most-observed first

Lantana
sectionLantana

Callioreas
sectionCallioreas

New Gold Lantana
hybridLantana × hybrida

Velvet Lantana
speciesLantana velutina

Small Lantana
speciesLantana rugosa

Lantana rugulosa
speciesLantana rugulosa

Lantana megapotamica
speciesLantana megapotamica

Lantana hirta
speciesLantana hirta

Galápagos lantana
speciesLantana peduncularis

Lantana grisebachii
speciesLantana grisebachii

Lantana undulata
speciesLantana undulata

Lantana sprucei
speciesLantana sprucei

Lantana tiliifolia
speciesLantana tiliifolia

Purple Lantana
speciesLantana angolensis

Lantana indica
speciesLantana indica

Lantana balansae
speciesLantana balansae

Lantana hispida
speciesLantana hispida

Lantana dinteri
speciesLantana dinteri

Lantana radula
speciesLantana radula

Lantana caudata
speciesLantana caudata

Lantana veronicifolia
speciesLantana veronicifolia

Lantana urticifolia
speciesLantana urticifolia

Lantana boyacana
speciesLantana boyacana

Lantana swynnertonii
speciesLantana swynnertonii

Lantana × bahamensis
hybridLantana × bahamensis

Lantana × pohliana
hybridLantana × pohliana

Lantana angustibracteata
speciesLantana angustibracteata

Lantana glaziovii
speciesLantana glaziovii

Lantana salzmannii
speciesLantana salzmannii

Lantana hypoleuca
speciesLantana hypoleuca

Lantana demutata
speciesLantana demutata

Lantana × entrerriensis
hybridLantana × entrerriensis

Lantana colombiana
speciesLantana colombiana
Lantana scabrida
speciesLantana scabrida

Lantana leonardiorum
speciesLantana leonardiorum
Lantana petitiana
speciesLantana petitiana

Lantana balsamifera
speciesLantana balsamifera

Lantana lopez-palacii
speciesLantana lopez-palacii

Lantana × floridana
hybridLantana × floridana
Lantana moldenkei
speciesLantana moldenkei

Lantana magnibracteata
speciesLantana magnibracteata
Lantana callowiana
hybridLantana callowiana

Lantana alainii
speciesLantana alainii

Lantana ehrenbergiana
speciesLantana ehrenbergiana

Lantana buchii
speciesLantana buchii

Lantana × strigodepressa
hybridLantana × strigodepressa

Lantana ciferriana
speciesLantana ciferriana

Lantana salicifolia
speciesLantana salicifolia
Lantana soatensis
speciesLantana soatensis
Lantana rusbyana
speciesLantana rusbyana

Lantana angustifolia
speciesLantana angustifolia

Lantana lucida
speciesLantana lucida

Lantana pauciflora
speciesLantana pauciflora

Lantana microcarpa
speciesLantana microcarpa
Lantana rhodesiensis
speciesLantana rhodesiensis
Lantana pastazensis
speciesLantana pastazensis
Lantana chiapasensis
speciesLantana chiapasensis
Lantana langlassei
speciesLantana langlassei
Lantana jaliscana
speciesLantana jaliscana
Lantana venosa
speciesLantana venosa
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
—
geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
Drag the globe to turn it. Dots are where records exist, not a range map; darker means more records.
In the old herbals & bestiaries
In the stacks
Searching the stacks…
Every page naming Lantana in the Biodiversity Heritage Library →
This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 50334.


