Field Guide / Native Plant
Native Plant
Texas Lantana
Lantana urticoides
Texas lantana — the native one, Lantana urticoides, and the distinction matters — burns orange-and-red through heat that stops everything else cold, permanently dressed in butterflies. The nursery hybrids are prettier in the pot and a menace in the wild. Skip them. Plant the real thing. 🦋
Water
Very low
Sun
Full
Blooms
Spring–fall
Wildlife
Butterflies
The native lantana — orange-to-red clusters through the worst of the heat, pure butterfly fuel. Not the invasive hybrid kind, which charms you at the garden center and then quietly tries to colonize the neighborhood.
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