Lantana

Description: Lantana is a shrublike plant that may grow up to 45 centimeters high. It has opposite, round leaves and flowers borne in flat-topped clusters. The flower color (which varies in different areas) may be white, yellow, orange, pink, or red. It has a dark blue or black berrylike fruit. A distinctive feature of all parts of this plant is its strong scent.

Habitat and Distribution: Lantana is grown as an ornamental in tropical and temperate areas and has escaped cultivation as a weed along roads and old fields.

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- Castor bean, castor-oil plant, palma Christi   - Chinaberry   - Cowhage, cowage, cowitch   - Death camas, death lily   - Lantana   - Manchineel   - Oleander   - Pangi   - Physic nut   - Poison hemlock, fool's parsley   - Poison ivy and poison oak   - Poison sumac   - Rosary pea or crab's eyes   - Strychnine tree   - Trumpet vine or trumpet creeper   - Water hemlock or spotted cowbane