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WFO wfo-0000223194 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC BY / CC BY-SA

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Lantana involucrata, photographed by Darren Oh
fig. a Darren Oh, CC BY-SA 4.0 / 2022-06-11 / obs. 205259097
Lantana involucrata, photographed by stinger
fig. b stinger, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 186735271
Lantana involucrata, photographed by stinger
fig. c stinger, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 186723871
Lantana involucrata, photographed by Josiah Londerée
fig. d Josiah Londerée, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 182014399
Lantana involucrata, photographed by Mitch Van Dyke
fig. e Mitch Van Dyke, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 181664124
Lantana involucrata, photographed by Pete Grannis
fig. f Pete Grannis, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 175264919
Lantana involucrata, photographed by Michael Bakker Paiva
fig. g Michael Bakker Paiva, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 172969671
Lantana involucrata, photographed by Tom Field
fig. h Tom Field, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 169052401

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The specimen a real sheet, in a real collection

Herbarium
The New York Botanical Garden
Accession
01026723
Filed as
Lantana involucrata L.
Det. by
M. H. Nee 1993-01-01
Collected
M. H. Nee 1993-10-30
Origin
PR
The sheet
View the digitised specimen (CC BY 4.0)

A real pressed plant, in a real collection, under the accession number above. Not an illustration of one. The holding institution does not serve this sheet’s image to third parties, so there is no photograph here. The record is real and the link goes to it. Where we hold no openly licensed sheet for a species this section is simply absent, and where a sheet never recorded who determined it, that field stays empty rather than being filled in. Roughly half of all herbarium sheets never recorded a determiner, which is ordinary.

Native range 29 botanical countries

Regions where Lantana involucrata is native: Mexican Pacific Is., Mexico Central, Mexico Gulf, Mexico Northeast, Mexico Northwest, Mexico Southeast, Mexico Southwest, Aruba, Bahamas, Belize, Bermuda, Cayman Is., Colombia, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Jamaica, Leeward Is., Netherlands Antilles, Panamá, Puerto Rico, Southwest Caribbean, Trinidad-Tobago, Turks-Caicos Is., Venezuela, Venezuelan Antilles, Windward Is. Mexico CentralMexico GulfMexico NortheastMexico NorthwestMexico SoutheastMexico SouthwestBelizeColombiaCubaDominican RepublicGuatemalaHaitiHondurasJamaicaPanamáPuerto RicoSouthwest CaribbeanTrinidad-TobagoVenezuela ArubaBahamasBermudaCayman Is.Leeward Is.Netherlands AntillesTurks-Caicos Is.Venezuelan AntillesWindward Is.
Native distribution of Lantana involucrata, after Kew’s World Checklist of Vascular Plants. Introduced, extinct and doubtful records are excluded, so this is where the plant is from, not everywhere it now grows. Regions too small to draw at this scale are marked with a dot.
RegionTDWG codeContinent
Aruba ARU SOUTHERN AMERICA
Bahamas BAH
Belize BLZ
Bermuda BER
Cayman Is. CAY
Colombia CLM
Cuba CUB
Dominican Republic DOM
Guatemala GUA
Haiti HAI
Honduras HON
Jamaica JAM
Leeward Is. LEE
Netherlands Antilles NLA
Panamá PAN
Puerto Rico PUE
Southwest Caribbean SWC
Trinidad-Tobago TRT
Turks-Caicos Is. TCI
Venezuela VEN
Venezuelan Antilles VNA
Windward Is. WIN
Mexican Pacific Is. MXI NORTHERN AMERICA
Mexico Central MXC
Mexico Gulf MXG
Mexico Northeast MXE
Mexico Northwest MXN
Mexico Southeast MXT
Mexico Southwest MXS

Not drawn on the map: Mexican Pacific Is.. We hold no public-domain boundary for this region, so it is listed rather than guessed at.

Region boundaries approximated from Natural Earth (public domain) and mapped to TDWG World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions (WGSRPD) level-3 botanical countries (Brummitt 2001). Indicative, not the official WGSRPD geometry.

Flowering 190 in flower of 222 examined

Peak flowering in Jan. Each bar is the share of Lantana involucrata observations in which someone actually recorded the reproductive state and found the plant in flower, not the raw number of flowering records. That distinction matters: people observe plants far more in spring than in winter, so a bare count of flowering records partly measures when people go outside. Dividing by the number examined removes that. 190 of 222 examined observations were in flower, every one of them research grade. The whisker on each bar is a 95% Wilson interval. This is still a global aggregate and not a forecast for your garden: the same species flowers on different dates in different hemispheres. Where a species has fewer than 30 flowering records we do not draw this chart at all. Computed from 10.15468/dl.cgje2x.

When it blooms, where you are 1 state

StatePeaksObservations in flower
Florida Sep 102

Where it actually grows measured, from 2,006 observations

Condition 5th percentile Median 95th percentile
Coldest month, mean daily low 14.3 °C 19.0 °C 24.2 °C
Warmest month, mean daily high 27.9 °C 29.4 °C 31.0 °C
Annual rainfall 1,045 mm 1,450 mm 1,918 mm
Rainfall in the driest quarter 123 mm 157 mm 279 mm

It is not found anywhere that gets close to freezing. This is not care advice and it is not a forecast. It is a measurement: we sampled the climate at every one of the 2,006 research-grade observations of Lantana involucrata that carry a coordinate, and this is the range those places actually span. The 5th and 95th percentiles are used rather than the minimum and maximum, because a single cultivated specimen in a heated conservatory should not widen a tropical plant's range to the Arctic.

This is not a hardiness zone. A USDA zone is the average annual extreme minimum temperature. The figure above is the mean daily minimum of the coldest month, which is a different quantity and is typically far warmer. Reading one as the other would place a plant several zones too warm, so we do not publish a hardiness zone, because we do not have one. Climate from CHELSA V2.1 (Karger et al. 2017); occurrences from 10.15468/dl.cgje2x.

Also published as 21 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 involucrata (L.) Kuntze
  • Lantana arubensis Moldenke
  • Lantana incana Otto & A.Dietr.
  • Lantana involucrata f. candida Fosberg
  • Lantana involucrata f. kuhnholtziana Stehlé
  • Lantana involucrata f. leucocarpa Moldenke
  • Lantana involucrata f. rubella Moldenke
  • Lantana involucrata var. berlandieri Torr.
  • Lantana involucrata var. floridana Chapm.
  • Lantana involucrata var. kuhnholtziana Stehlé
  • Lantana involucrata var. odorata (L.) Moldenke
  • Lantana involucrata var. socorrensis Moldenke
  • Lantana involucrata var. velutina Standl.
  • Lantana lanuginosa Mill.
  • Lantana odorata L.
  • Lantana odorata var. berlandieri Torr.
  • Lantana parvifolia Raf.
  • Lantana parvifolia Salisb.
  • Lantana recta Aiton
  • Lantana recta [Soland.]
  • Lantana reticulata Raf.

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.
  3. Wikidata. common name (P1843), joined on the World Flora Online identifier (P7715). CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-13.
  4. Kew, World Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP v16). native distribution by TDWG level-3 botanical country, and life form. CC BY 3.0. Retrieved 2026-06-04.

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