Trailing Lantana is a small strongly scented flowering
low shrub with oval-shaped green leaves, which can climb as a vine,
when is gets support. The inflorescence is a circular head of several
purple to lavender to white funnel-shaped flowers with lobed flowers
each nearly a centimeter wide. The fruit consists of a pair of nutlets
surrounded by flesh somewhat like a berry. Trailing Lantana is also
cultivated as an ornamental plant for its plentiful colorful lavender
to purple flowers and as a drought tolerant ground-cover, woody vine,
and trailing plant for containers and in the ground.
In temperate climates there are flowers most of the year, with yellow
blooming and variegated leaved cultivars also available. Trailing
Lantana is native to Tropical America.
Identification credit: Radhika Vatsan
Photographed in cultivation in Delhi & Goa.
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