Family: Verbenaceae
Group: Dicot
Substrate:
Terrestrial
Habit:
Shrub
Perennation:
Perennial
Native Range: Endemic to eastern peninsular Florida.
Map of select IRC data for peninsular Florida
NatureServe Global Status:
G2T2
Florida Natural Areas Inventory State Status:
Critically Imperiled
IRC SOUTH FLORIDA Status:
Critically Imperiled
SOUTH FLORIDA Occurrence:
Present
SOUTH FLORIDA Native Status:
Native
South Florida History and Distribution: Ranked as critically imperiled in Rare Plants of South Florida (
Gann et al. 2002; pp 460-462) as
Lantana depressa var.
floridana based on three occurrences in five protected areas. It was reassessed in 2021 using updated NatureServe criteria and the rank of critically imperiled was retained.
SOUTH FLORIDA Cultivated Status:
Cultivated
Comments: For a specimen image of an early hybrid between this and the exotic L. camara, visit the
Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden Virtual Herbarium.
The Atlas of Florida Vascular Plants treats this as a synonym of the exotic, L. camara. We disagree.
Visit our
Natives For Your Neighborhood website for more information. For more on recent taxonomic changes see Franck et al. 2021.
Synonyms: Lantana depressa Small var.
floridana (Moldenke) R.W. Sanders
