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WEAKLEY'S FLORA (5/21/15):
Lantana depressa var. floridana
FAMILY
Verbenaceae
Dig deeper at SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.
Read about the confusion of rare natives with a poisonous invasive in "The Lantana Mess, A Critical Look at the Genus in Florida".
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Lantana depressa var. floridana
FAMILY
Verbenaceae
INCLUDED WITHIN
Guide to the Vascular Plants of Florida (Wunderlin & Hansen, 2011)
Lantana camara
INCLUDED WITHIN (MISAPPLIED)
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 162-05-001:
Lantana ovatifolia
FAMILY
Verbenaceae
INCLUDED WITHIN (MISAPPLIED)
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Lantana ovatifolia
COMMON NAME:
Florida Lantana, East Florida Lantana
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Keith Bradley kab_l_depressa_flori_9275
July Miami-Dade County FL
Bill Baggs Cape Florida State Park
A large bushy yellow-flowered shrub endemic Florida’s east coast, per The Lantana Mess, A Critical Look at the Genus in Florida (Hammer, 2004).
WEAKLEY'S FLORA (5/21/15):
Lantana depressa var. floridana
FAMILY
Verbenaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Lantana depressa var. floridana
FAMILY
Verbenaceae
INCLUDED WITHIN
Guide to the Vascular Plants of Florida (Wunderlin & Hansen, 2011)
Lantana camara
INCLUDED WITHIN (MISAPPLIED)
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 162-05-001:
Lantana ovatifolia
FAMILY
Verbenaceae
INCLUDED WITHIN (MISAPPLIED)
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Lantana ovatifolia
3980
Shrub
Perennial
Native to Florida & extreme se GA; introduced in AL & SC
Documented growing wild in GA - SC
Rare (an endemic)
Look for it in coastal strands, xeric hammocks, scrubby pine flatwoods, on the edges of brackish marshes, dunes, per Weakley's Flora
Click here to see a more detailed map from University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Herbarium,
or click here to see a map from SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.
IS THE PLANT "ARMED"?
Stems not armed
LEAVES:
Deciduous
Simple
Opposite
FLOWER:
Spring
Yellow
Bilaterally symmetrical
Obscurely 2-4 lobed calyx
4-lobed salverform corolla
4 included stamens, attached to corolla tube
FRUIT:
TO LEARN MORE about this plant, look it up in a good book!