Trailing Lavender Lantana - plants in 2.5 inch pot
Attracts hummingbirds
Beautiful rosy color flowers
Evergreen
Blooms year round
A low-growing mat-forming plant that grows to 2 feet tall and trails to 10 feet with slightly-hairy green strongly-scented small leaves and puts forth a seemingly year-round display of numerous lightly-fragrant white flowers held in a circular head about 1 and 1/2 inches wide. The individual flowers, not quite 1/2 inch wide, have a yellow throat and open from the outside of the inflorescence first and then towards the center. It thrives in full sun or light shade and is drought tolerant, deer resistant, tolerant of seaside conditions and is hardy down to about 20 degrees F and can rebound from below ground from temperatures approaching 10°F (USDA Zone 8) . In cold weather the foliage can take on an odd blackish-purple cast.
It is a tough old time groundcover that blooms all the time in Southern California and this white form is just as good and as with the species, when in bloom attracts bees and butterflies. Deer also seem to leave it alone as do Lantana Lace Bug (Teleonemia scrupulosa, which plague the larger growing Lantana camara and L. hybrida selections.
The species is native to South America from Bolivia, Uruguay, Paraguay, Argentina and southern Brazil.
