Catalog Description
Profuse color year round from rich orange-red flowers! Useful as substitute for annuals in flower beds or containers. Excellent low hedge or accent shrub. Attracts butterflies. Tolerates heat. Full sun. Moderate grower to 4 to 6 feet tall and wide. Cutting grown. |
Design Ideas
This vivid Lantana is an unparalleled source of quick foliage and flowers in warmer climates. Its coloring is just right for adding brilliance to the tropical-inspired landscape that will take some cold. These plants grow very fast to fill in a young landscape, or use as a single-season makeover plant. Very resilient in extreme heat, particularly reflected heat off driveways or street paving. A natural for filling sunny banks and slopes. Plant in flower and shrub beds, raised planters, along fence lines and foundations, and in parkways. Put them in pots for powerful color on a deck or patio with brightly blooming annual flowers.
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Companion Plants
Radiation needs big-leafed plants as a foundation for all this brilliant color.
Plant with Japanese Aralia (Fatsia japonica) and Shiny Xylosma (Xylosma congestum) for a solid framework.
Then inject a clump of little Windmill Palm (Trachycarpus fortunei) and the dramatic Red DragonTM Tropical Hibiscus (Hibiscus rosa-sinensis `Mongon`), Silver Dragon Lilyturf (Liriope spicata `Silver Dragon`) and purple Centennial Dwarf Crape Myrtle (Lagerstroemia indica `Centennial`).
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Average Landscape Size
Moderate grower to 4 to 6 ft. tall and wide. |
Key Plant Benefits
Profuse color year-round from rich orange-red flowers! Useful as substitute for annuals in flower beds or containers. Excellent low hedge or accent shrub. Attracts butterflies. Tolerates heat. |
Care Instructions
Follow a regular watering schedule during the first growing season to establish a deep, extensive root system. Feed with a general purpose fertilizer before new growth begins in spring. For a tidy, neat appearance, shear annually to shape. |
Growth Conditions
| Growth Rate |
 Moderate Growing |
| Growth Habit |
| Erect |
| Heat Zones |
High:
| 12 (>210 days) |
| Low: | 1 (< 1 days) |
| Cold Hardiness |
| High: | 11 (Above 40 F) (see map) |
| Low: | 9 (20 to 30 F) |
| Water Requirements |
| Once established needs only occasional water. |
| Sun Exposure |
| Full sun |
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Flowering
Flower or Bloom description:
Salverform flowers in clusters
| Flower Color |
| Orange |
| Flowering Time/Season |
| Blooms continuously in frost-free area |
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Propagation
| Propagation Method |
1
| Cutting grown |
| Best time to Prune |
| Spring |
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Attributes
Attracts Butterflies
Attracts Wildlife
Border Plant
Deer Resistant
Drought Tolerant
Fall Flowering
Foliage Poisonous
Fragrant
Groundcover
Hedge Plant
Hummingbird Friendly
Modern Garden
Patio Container Plant
Repeat Blooming
Showy Flowers
Spring Flowering
Summer Flowering
Swimming Pool Plant
Tolerates Poor Soils
Tropical
Year-round Interest |
Foliage
Rough, toothed, wrinkled, dark green leaves
| Foliage Shape | Ovate |
| Normal foliage color | Green |
| Underside foliage | Green |
| Juvenile foliage | Green |
| Mature foliage | Green |
| New foliage | Green |
| Spring foliage | Green |
| Summer foliage | Green |
| Fall foliage | Green |
| Winter foliage | Green |
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Plant Lore
Lantanas are valuable butterfly nectar plants and are equally appealing to hummingbirds. |
Plant History
This is a large genus with over 150 species native to tropical regions of the Americas and Africa. L. camara is native as far north as Texas and southern Georgia but has naturalized elsewhere in the South. The genus name is the same as the South American name for the plants. Many of the contemporary varieties resulted from hybrids of this and L. montevidensis. |
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