Scientific Name: Lantana camara

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  • Pronunciation:
    lan-TAR-nah (or lan-TAN-ah) car-MAR-ah
  • Common Name:
    Lantana
  • Type:
    Shrub , thicket-forming
  • Family:
    VERBENACEAE
  • Status:
    WEED This introduced plant has escaped into local bushland. Without natural predators to keep it in check, it is out-competing native species.
  • Flowers:
    orange, pink, many colours, clustered in flat-topped heads, 2-3 cm across
  • Fruit:
    Fleshy purplish black
  • Species List:
    Weyba Esp, Noosa's Worst Weeds, Emu Mt., SBHS, Coolum High, Pomona School Oval, Wooroi Day Use Area Tracks, Meridan College, Cooroy Primary School, Cooroibah 26.4.09, Wooroi Palm Grove, BSDoonan, Cooloothin Corner, Banana, Old Tewantin, Fraser Island, Girraween, Mill Point, Johns, Cooroibah Conservation Park, Cooroibah Bushland Reserve, Cranks Creek, weeds, Leslie Drive Roundabout, Dandaloo, BHNR, NNS, TAFE, Heritage Park, Wallace Park,
Cultural Notes

Native of tropical South America||Seeds are mainly dispersed by birds (often the mynah bird), but sometimes by goats, sheep, cattle, foxes, monkeys and rodents. Also reproduces and disperses vegetatively very easily. Introduced by humans for use as ornamental and hedge plants.||

Identification Notes

Prickly 4-angled stems||

Associated Fauna

Spread mainly by birds

Landscaping Notes

CONTROL METHODS:|| REMOVAL: Remove every part of the plant - hand-pull seedlings. ||Replace with: Melastoma melabathricum, Austromyrtus dulcis, Leptospermum spp., Pultenaea villosa.||