Texas Lantana

This was growing wild on the lot adjacent to our place, purchased the vacant lot and have found that the more attention it gets the faste...Read Morer and better it grows, we cut it back so we could clean the trash and leaf litter out and found it grew back amazingly fast. Also very easy to transplant. Literally, pulled it out by the roots, dug a hole, stuck it back in and watered it. Within 1 month could not tell it'd been touched.

Texas lantana is a nector food of the Monarch butterfly on it's migrations from Mexico to Canada each year and back.

Texas Lantana, Lantana horrida is native to Texas and other States.
It is a wonderful plant that will bloom all summer untill fro...Read Morest and attract buterflies and hummingbirds to your yard, I love it and highgly recommend it.

This one has bloom all last season and slowed a bit this winter, it was one of the first blooms I had this spring. A very pretty landscap...Read Moree addition....

I read that it is named *horrida* because the person who named it hated the pungent small of its leaves. I love it! Lantana will make a ...Read Moretall groundcover if you let it spread. If you want to curb it, then trim in back to 2" every winter after first frost when it dies back.

I have several varieties, I have the orange and yellow, the red and yellow, the yellow and the lavender. The lavender seems to be the on...Read Morely one that spreads all over the place. It is on a fence, and growing along the ground. They are all blooming and will be until the first frost. The lavender is far more low lying and bushy where as the others are upright and slow growing. Every year I cut the lavender to the ground and every year it spreads more.