Texas Lantana
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Lantana urticoides (L. horrida)
Common names include Texas Lantana, Calico Bush
Texas lantana beautifully graces many Texas landscapes, thriving across a variety of soils, especially along the stunning coastline and in neighboring Louisiana, Mississippi, and Mexico. This charming, low-growing shrub features rough, aromatic leaves and flourishes even in poor, sandy, or gravelly soils, making it perfect for hot and dry areas—whether basking in full sun or enjoying a bit of light shade. In southern Texas, you might notice its branches die back during winter, only to gracefully return in spring. Pruning after frost and occasionally during the growing season helps keep its shape neat and compact, allowing it to bloom beautifully on fresh growth. During the mid-to-late summer, the lantana puts on a delightful show with clusters of tiny red, yellow, and orange flowers that brighten up any garden.
While its leaves are poisonous, don’t let that deter you! The nectar of this lovely plant attracts cheerful butterflies, and its berries are a tasty treat for birds. Lantana is an excellent choice for sunny, low-maintenance spots. Once it settles in, it requires only a little care, rewarding you with a continuous display of flowers from mid-summer and bringing in butterflies to create a lively scene.
Height: 2’-6’
Spread: 2’-6’
Bloom: April-October
Light: Full Sun
Water: Low
Zone: 8-11
Origin: Texas, New Mexico, Arizona
Spring Shipping:
Orders are shipped within 10-15 business days. We will email you if there are expected delays.
When you order plants from our nursery, you can expect them to arrive in the best possible condition. Our team carefully packs each order using sturdy, biodegradable packaging materials.
Your plants' appearance may vary depending on the season and their current growth stage. We may cut back the leafy growth of some plants to prepare them for shipment and transplanting.
5 Gallon and Up: Any plant purchased to ship over 5 Gallons will be shipped bare root. This means we will remove the plant from its original pot, remove the soil surrounding the roots, and wrap the roots with a biodegradable plastic bag. This reduces weight and the likelihood of damage during shipping.
Once your plants arrive, it is essential to plant them as soon as possible. This will help them rebound and thrive. If you cannot plant immediately, water regularly and keep the roots off heat-conducting surfaces.
Newly transplanted plants often require more water until their roots are well established. Plan to water them 1-3 times weekly for the first few months.
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Customer Reviews
Overall rating: 4.8 / 5 from 30 reviews.
Growing like weeds just like I wanted them too!!!!
The Lantana, Texas Sage, and Autumn Sage took well and grew so fast last summer. All came back this spring and are looking beautiful!
Doing very well.
Arrived in good condition and blooming. Packaged well
The Lantana is loaded with little buds and is growing great!
Growing really slow but alive! I have then managed watering it more recently
I accidentally forgot to keep up with this before planting but it’s a fighter and is grow nice and strong.
Lantana arrived healthy adapted to planting well.
Arrived promptly and healthy. Roots moist, stems intact. Transplanted well, no problems.
Plants were packed well and arrived in great condition. Glad to have some native lantana to add to my landscape
This. Came in great shape and is growing
Nice product
Packaged well, plant arrived in good condition.
The plant arrived well packaged. Nice size, pruned for shipping nicely and great roots! Put it in temporary transplant pot before moving to final pot. So far it is reacting well and perky. Happy camper.
Ive had this gracious replacement in the ground less than a week and its alteady blooming with very bright blooms. I like this nursery, especially that its a small business. 😊
All plants (lantana, fall obedients and Texas betony), in my order were well packaged and all arrived in excellent condition. We planted them the day after we got them, and they are all doing great.
Nice healthy plant as usual. Thank you.
plants arrived well rooted but very dehydrated, soaked them in a shallow dish of water overnight and they perked right up. Transplanted just fine into the garden and are thriving.
The Texas Lantana arrived in fair condition. The delivery was pushed back a couple of days. The leaves of the plants appeared a little dry, but the roots were fine. They were moist and well packed for delivery. I am sure the plants will be fine. What is tougher than Lantana?
The plant arrived safely and well packaged. We put it in the ground the next day and it is doing well! Very pleased with the purchase of the Texas Lantana.
Arrived in great shape and already growing!
Plants arrived in good condition despite the box being transported upside down, one of the plants was broken off at the base but should recover. I wouldn't be upset if you sent a replacement.
I got my box and everything was doing great except for the Texas lanta; there was nothing but shriveled plants on top. I planted it but haven’t seen anything and don’t know if it’s survived the trip
The plants came with no breakage and were great looking.
Plants arrived well packed and very healthy. Very pleased with my purchase. Thank you!
Wonderfully wrapped, beautiful plants. All my plants from them are doing well and I planted in late June!!
I already have four other types of lantana but couldn’t resist buying another Texas native.
Native Gardens is a great supplier of strong healthy plants, packed very well and shipped at perfect timing. Great selection of plants as well!
Plants arrived in good shape. They have been in the ground less than one week but appear to be doing fine.
Ordered in July---arrived growing and doing great---very pleased
