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Lantana montevidensis
Trailing Lantana
Lantana montevidensis, the Trailing Lantana, is a low sprawling shrub that behaves as a ground cover, running out to a metre or more and carrying flat heads of mauve to purple flowers almost without pause in a warm climate. The foliage is small, dark and aromatic, and browsing animals leave it alone.
It is a mainstay of hot-climate median strips, embankments and roof planters, because it flowers hard on very little water and asks for one shear a year.
Specifications
- Height0.3 to 0.6 metres
- Width1 to 2 metres, trailing
- Native toSouth America, from Uruguay and southern Brazil to Argentina and Paraguay
- FoliageSmall, toothed, dark green aromatic leaves on trailing stems; evergreen in warm climates
- Growth rateFast
Conditions
- SoilTolerates poor, sandy, rocky and alkaline soils; needs good drainage
- LightFull sun
- WaterLow; drought-tolerant once established
- ClimateThrives in tropical, subtropical and warm arid regions; frost sensitive but reshoots from the base
Additional Features
- FlowersFlat heads of small mauve to purple flowers, near-continuous in warm climates
- UsesIdeal for mass ground cover, embankments and batters, median strips, roof planters and spill over retaining walls
- SpacingPlant 0.5 to 0.8 metres apart for a closed cover within a season
- Low MaintenanceShear back once a year to keep the mat dense and to renew flowering wood
- Pest ResistanceGenerally resilient; the aromatic foliage deters browsing
- Drought ToleranceFlowers reliably on minimal irrigation in high heat
- Wildlife AttractionFlowers are worked steadily by butterflies and bees
- Erosion ControlDense trailing mat holds soil on slopes and batters
Trailing Lantana is the hot-climate ground cover that keeps flowering when the irrigation budget is cut.
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Prepared 08 September 2026