Lantana camaraL.

common lantana

WFO wfo-0000223016 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h

Lantana camara, photographed by Greg Tasney
fig. a Greg Tasney, CC BY-SA 4.0 / 2022-06-13 / obs. 205710932
Lantana camara, photographed by Greg Tasney
fig. b Greg Tasney, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 205101161
Lantana camara, photographed by Greg Tasney
fig. c Greg Tasney, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 205977267
Lantana camara, photographed by Greg Tasney
fig. d Greg Tasney, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 203454114
Lantana camara, photographed by 五色鳥
fig. e 五色鳥, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 202861915
Lantana camara, photographed by Greg Tasney
fig. f Greg Tasney, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 204579817
Lantana camara, photographed by Lexi Amico
fig. g Lexi Amico, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 205647658
Lantana camara, photographed by Greg Tasney
fig. h Greg Tasney, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 201163327

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Flowering n = 8,364 observations

Peak flowering in Apr, from 8,364 community-annotated observations worldwide. This is a global aggregate, not a forecast for your garden: the same species flowers on different dates in different hemispheres, and citizen-science records cluster near cities, at weekends, and in spring. Where a species has fewer than 30 annotated records we do not draw this chart at all.

Also published as 65 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

  • Camara aculeata (L.) Kuntze
  • Camara aculeata f. crocea (Jacq.) Kuntze
  • Camara aculeata f. obtusifolia Kuntze
  • Camara aculeata f. sanguinea (Medik.) Kuntze
  • Camara aculeata f. varia Kuntze
  • Camara aculeata var. normalis Kuntze
  • Camara aculeata var. subinermis Kuntze
  • Camara vulgaris Benth.
  • Lantana aculeata L.
  • Lantana aculeata f. aculeata
  • Lantana aculeata f. crocea (Jacq.) Voss
  • Lantana aculeata f. parvifolia (Moldenke) I.E.Méndez
  • Lantana aculeata f. varia (Kuntze) Voss
  • Lantana aculeata var. subinermis (Kuntze) Voss
  • Lantana annua C.B.Clarke
  • Lantana arida var. portoricensis Moldenke
  • Lantana armata f. ternifolia Moldenke
  • Lantana asperata Vis.
  • Lantana bahamensis f. albiflora Moldenke
  • Lantana bahamensis f. canescens Moldenke
  • Lantana camara f. aculeifera Moldenke
  • Lantana camara f. camara
  • Lantana camara f. multiflora (Otto & Dietr.) Moldenke
  • Lantana camara f. multiflora (Otto & A.Dietr.) Moldenke

and 41 more.

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.

We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice, no toxicity claim and no native range, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite.