Lantana involucrata 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 pubescent, much branched shrub, 6-15 dm. high, the branches stiff, nearly terete. Leaves elliptic or ovate, petioled, 1-4 cm. long, crenulate, obtuse at the apex, narrowed or obtuse at the base, scabrous above, pubescent beneath; peduncles 1-5 cm. long, slender; heads several-flowered, involucrate by several ovate or ovate-lanceolate bracts 3-6 mm. long; corolla lilac or nearly white, its tube 6-8 mm. long; drupes about 4 mm. in diameter; drupes blue, about 3 mm. in diameter.
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Discussion
Scrub-lands, thickets and pine-lands, throughout the archipelago from Allen's Cay and Great Bahama to Grand Turk, Little Ambergris Cay, Inagua, the Anguilla Isles and Cay Sal : Florida : Bermuda ; Cuba to Virgin Gorda and Guadeloupe ; Jamaica. Wild Sage. Big Sage.
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Distribution
Allen's Cay and Great Bahama to Grand Turk, Little Ambergris Cay, Inagua, the Anguilla Isles and Cay Sal : Florida : Bermuda ; Cuba to Virgin Gorda and Guadeloupe ; Jamaica.
Grand Bahama Bahamas South America| Inagua Bahamas South America| Anguilla South America| Florida United States of America North America| Bermuda South America| Cuba South America| Virgin Gorda Virgin Islands South America| Guadeloupe South America| Jamaica South America|