Lantana camara L.

Spice Flower Leaves In the field

Family: VERBENACEAE

Genus: Lantana

Catalan common name: Banderes. Lantana.

Spanish common name: Bandera Española.

Province distribution: Alacant. Balearic Islands. Barcelona. Tarragona. València.

Distribution in the islands: Mallorca. Ibiza.

General distribution (Phytogeography): Neotropical

Flowering time: JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec

Life-forms: Nanophanerophyte.

Habitats: Cultivated fields, path and road sides, disturbed zones. Garden plants. Cultivated specie. Gardens. Naturalizated in disturbed zones.

Characteristics: A greatly branched shrub, with large, opposite leaves with a dentate magin. The flowers are grouped in inflorescences which look like umbels; the flowers can be yellow and red, often the same inflorescence has a mixture of the two types of colours. It is a species native to tropical America, which is greatly used in our gardens to make hedges; sometimes it can be found naturalizated. It flowers in spring and in summer.