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| Scientific Name | Lantana achyranthifolia (Lantana macropoda) | USDA PLANTS Symbol | LAAC |
| Common Name | Mejorana, Desert Lantana | ITIS Taxonomic Serial No. | 32174 |
| Family | Verbenaceae (Verbena) | SEINet Reference |
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| Description |
Habitat: Dry, rocky, gravelly hillsides flats and desert washes. Plant: Erect shrub up to 6-1/2 feet high; many slender, long, light yellowish-green branches, densely covered with short hairs. Leaves: Hairy, opposite, narrow-lanceolate to ovate leaves, about 1 to 3 inches long on petioles up to 3/8-inch long; blades with toothed edges. Inflorescence: Small hemispheric or elongated clusters (up to 3/4-inch across) arising from leaf axils on peduncles 1-1/2 to 5-1/2 inches long; each head with many tubular blossoms with white to pink corollas with 4 lobes, lower lobe larger, and yellow center. Bloom Period: February to November. References: "Manual of the Vascular Plants of Texas" by Correll and Johnston, "Wildflowers of Texas" by Michael Eason; L. macropoda from "Little Big Bend" by Roy Morey | .
BONAP Distribution Map |
Texas Status: Native |
| Scientific Name | Lantana montevidensis | USDA PLANTS Symbol | LAMO2 |
| Common Name | Trailing Shrubverbena, Trailing Lantana | ITIS Taxonomic Serial No. | 32181 |
| Family | Verbenaceae (Verbena) | SEINet Reference |
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| Description |
Habitat: Roadsides, fencerows, waste areas; garden escapee, introduced from South America. Plant: Low-growing perennial shrub with trailing, much-branched, vine-like stems up to 40 inches long forming dense mats; rooting at nodes. Leaves: Opposite, ovate to lanceolate 3/8 to 1-1/4 inches long, with toothed edges; hairy surfaces and rough to touch. Inflorescence: Small flowers in clusters about 1-inch across on long peduncles; corollas with 4 or 5 irregular lobes, magenta or lilac to rose or purple with a white center, about 1/2-inch long; outer bracts or scales of the involucre broadly ovate and hairy and less than half as long as the corolla tube. Bloom Period: February to June. References: "Manual of the Vascular Plants of Texas" by Correll and Johnston and University of California, Irvine. |
BONAP Distribution Map |
Texas Status: Introduced |
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