Lantana L.

Native to:

Afghanistan, Angola, Argentina Northeast, Argentina Northwest, Arizona, Aruba, Assam, Bahamas, Bangladesh, Belize, Benin, Bermuda, Bolivia, Botswana, Brazil North, Brazil Northeast, Brazil South, Brazil Southeast, Brazil West-Central, Burkina, Burundi, Cameroon, Cape Provinces, Caprivi Strip, Cayman Is., Central African Repu, Chad, Colombia, Congo, Costa Rica, Cuba, Djibouti, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Egypt, El Salvador, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Florida, Free State, French Guiana, Gabon, Galápagos, Ghana, Guatemala, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, India, Ivory Coast, Jamaica, Kenya, KwaZulu-Natal, Leeward Is., Lesotho, Malawi, Mali, Mexican Pacific Is., Mexico Central, Mexico Gulf, Mexico Northeast, Mexico Northwest, Mexico Southeast, Mexico Southwest, Mozambique, Myanmar, Namibia, Nepal, Netherlands Antilles, New Mexico, Nicaragua, Niger, Nigeria, Northern Provinces, Oman, Pakistan, Panamá, Paraguay, Peru, Puerto Rico, Rwanda, Saudi Arabia, Sierra Leone, Somalia, Southwest Caribbean, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Suriname, Swaziland, Tanzania, Texas, Thailand, Togo, Trinidad-Tobago, Turks-Caicos Is., Uganda, Uruguay, Venezuela, Venezuelan Antilles, West Himalaya, Windward Is., Yemen, Zambia, Zaïre, Zimbabwe

Introduced into:

Alabama, Aldabra, Algeria, Andaman Is., Arkansas, Ascension, Azores, Baleares, Borneo, California, Cambodia, Canary Is., Caroline Is., Chagos Archipelago, China Southeast, Comoros, Cook Is., East Aegean Is., East Himalaya, Easter Is., Fiji, Gambia, Georgia, Gilbert Is., Greece, Gulf of Guinea Is., Hawaii, Italy, Jawa, Juan Fernández Is., Kazan-retto, Kriti, Lesser Sunda Is., Liberia, Libya, Line Is., Louisiana, Madagascar, Madeira, Malaya, Maldives, Marianas, Marshall Is., Morocco, Nansei-shoto, Nauru, New Caledonia, New Guinea, New Zealand North, New Zealand South, Nicobar Is., Niue, Norfolk Is., Ogasawara-shoto, Palestine, Phoenix Is., Pitcairn Is., Portugal, Queensland, Samoa, Seychelles, Society Is., South Carolina, South China Sea, Spain, St.Helena, Sulawesi, Tonga, Tuamotu, Tubuai Is., Tunisia, Tuvalu, Vanuatu, Wallis-Futuna Is.

POWO follows these authorities in accepting this name:

• Govaerts, R. (2003). World Checklist of Selected Plant Families Database in ACCESS: 1-216203. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
• Orchard, A.E. (ed.) (1994). Oceanic Islands 1. Flora of Australia 49: 1-681. Australian Government Publishing Service, Canberra.

Flora of West Tropical Africa

• —F.T.A. 5: 275.

Flora Zambesiaca

• Atkins in Kadereit (ed.), Fam. Gen. Vasc. Pl. (Kubitzki, ed. in chief) VII: 461 (2004).
• Bol. Soc. Brot., sér. 2, 61 : 125–214 (1989).
• F.T.E.A., Verbenaceae: 37–47 (1992).
• Gen. Pl., ed. 5: 275 (1754).
• Kadereit (ed.), Fam. Gen. Vasc. Pl. (Kubitzki, ed. in chief) VII: 461 (2004).
• R. Fernandes in Bol. Soc. Brot., sér. 2, 61: 125–214 (1989).
• Sp. Pl.: 626 (1753)
• Verdcourt in F.T.E.A., Verbenaceae: 37–47 (1992).

Flora of Somalia

• Fernandes in Bol. Soc. Brot., sér. 2, 61: 125–214 (1989).
• Flora Somalia, (2000) Author: by M. Thulin [updated by M. Thulin 2008]

Flora of Tropical East Africa

• L., Gen. Pl., ed. 5: 275 (1754)
• R. Fernandes in Bol. Soc. Brot., sér. 2, 61: 125–214 (1989)
• Sp. Pl.: 626 (1753)