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Texas Lantana
Lantana urticoides
Texas Lantana is a rounded, multi-branched shrub that blooms almost non-stop from spring through fall in tight clusters of red, orange and yellow flowers that shift color as they age. It grows into a large mound up to about six feet tall, thrives in full sun on poor, dry, well-drained ground, and shrugs off heat and drought with very little water. Butterflies and hummingbirds visit constantly, deer leave it alone, but the ripe blue-black fruit is poisonous and the crinkled leaves can irritate skin.
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Growing profile
- Sun
- Full Sun
- USDA zone
- USDA 8–11
- Soil
- Sand · Loam · Clay
- Moisture
- Dry · Well-Drained
Vertical layer
Shrub- Soil pH
- Not yet recorded
- Plant type
- Deciduous Tree
- Mature height
- 2–6 ft
- Mature spread
- Not yet recorded
- Plant spacing
- 2–4 ft
- Root type
- Not yet recorded
- Spread pattern
- Seed
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