Lantana camara (West Indian Lantana)
Front view illustration of a West Indian Lantana. It is a weed of cultivated land, fence lines, pastures, rangelands, and waste places. It thrives in dry and wet regions and often grows in valleys, mountain slopes, and coastal areas. It is somewhat shade-tolerant and, therefore, can become the dominant understory in open forests or in tropical tree crops. In pastures it forms dense thickets which shade out and encroach upon desirable pasture plants. With time it can form pure stands over large areas, the
shrub west indian lantana spanish flag invasive non-native sage red wild yellow la‘au kalakala Angiosperms Eudicots Asterids Lamiales VerbenaceaeAuthor(s) | Jane Hawkey |
Author Company | Integration and Application Network |
Date Created | 2010-01-01 |
Album | Flora > Trees/Shrubs/Vines |
Type | Symbol |
Project(s) | Pacific Island Network science communication products |
Dimensions | 500 x 293 |
Filesize | 143.5 kB (svg) 88.2 kB (png) |
Number of Downloads | 816 |
Filetype(s) | SVG PNG |
License | Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-SA 4.0) |
Required Attribution | Jane Hawkey, Integration and Application Network (ian.umces.edu/media-library) |