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How to Grow
Water
Medium
Water moderately, allowing the top 3cm to dry out between watering.
Sunlight
Partial Shade - Partial Sun - Full Sun
~
3-6 hours of sun per day, with protection from intense mid-day sun
Characteristics
Bloom Time
Mar, Apr, May, Jun, Jul, Aug
Plant Type
Perennials, Shrubs, Shrub, Annual, Perennial, Is slender with decumbent or trailing branches.
Lifespan
Perennial, Annual, Woody
Flower
Circular head of purple-lavender to white funnel-shaped flowers with 1/2" wide lobed corollas. The individual flowers have white toward the base of the lilac petal lobes and a yellow throat and open from the outside of the inflorescence first towards the center., Flowers white to lilac, in heads with peduncles usually much exceeding the leaves.
Fruit
Reddish-purple to purple 'berries' are 6-8 mm across and contain a single hard seed. Some cultivars do not produce seed (sterile).
Benefits
Attracts
Butterflies
Bees
Songbirds
Taxonomy
Order
Lamiales
Family
Verbenaceae
Genus
Lantana