Lantana camara L.
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Authority
Britton, Nathaniel L. & Millspaugh, Charles F. 1920. The Bahama Flora.
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Family
Verbenaceae
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Scientific Name
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Description
Species Description - A branching shrub 1-1.5 m. tall, rigid-pubescent, nearly or quite unarmed. Leaves ovate to oblong-ovate, 4-12 cm. long, obtuse, acute, or short-acuminate, finely crcnate-serrate, rounded or narrowed at the base; bracts oblong to lanceolate, 4-7 mm. long; calyx very thin, 3 mm. long; corolla orange-yellow or orange, changing to red, the tube about 1 em. long, puberulent, slightly curved, barely enlarged above the middle; limb 6-8 mm. wide; drupes black, about 3 mm. in diameter.
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Distribution
Waste grounds, Eleuthera, Warning's, Long Island and Inagua : Bermuda; Georgia to Florida and Texas : West Indies and continental tropical America. Referred to by Coker as L.croa a as to his Eleuthera plant. Laxtaxa. Red Sage-hush.
Eleuthera Bahamas South America| Long Island Bahamas South America| Inagua Bahamas South America| Bermuda South America| Georgia United States of America North America| Florida United States of America North America| Texas United States of America North America| West Indies|