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Common lantana

Lantana camara

Common lantana (Lantana camara) photographed by Devendra Bhardwaj

Image: Devendra Bhardwaj · iNaturalist · CC BY-NC 4.0 · Vaishali Nagar, Jaipur, Rajasthan · Resized

Common lantana (Lantana camara) photographed by Devendra Bhardwaj

Image: Devendra Bhardwaj · iNaturalist · CC BY-NC 4.0 · Thana, Jaipur, Rajasthan · Resized

Scientific name
Lantana camara
Family
Verbenaceae, order Lamiales
Group
Plant

A garden favourite that butterflies crowd around.

  • Spot it Round clusters of multicoloured flowers and rough, scented leaves.
  • Home Hedges, roadsides and garden edges.
  • Food web Nectar for butterflies; berries for birds.
  • Why it matters A nectar magnet for butterflies, boosting pollination, with berries that feed birds who spread the seeds.

Read more: Lantana camara on Wikipedia

Sources and credits

Records and field notes

  • RajasthanDevendra Bhardwaj has 4 verified records of this species on iNaturalist, between 2024 and 2026, in Jaipur and Khanpur Maina.[20]

Sources

  1. Devendra Bhardwaj. iNaturalist observations and notes, with place and date (inaturalist.org/people/devendrabhardwaj) (field record). The observer's own dated records and notes, with places. Statements in his notes are his own and were not independently checked by KJVF.
  2. GBIF Backbone Taxonomy and GBIF species data (family, order, Hindi names, IUCN category) (database). Open biodiversity data. Used for classification, Hindi common names and the IUCN category where one is given.
  3. Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (opening lines of each species article, CC BY-SA 4.0). The link on each entry goes to the article (reference). Not peer reviewed. Only the opening description is used, and statements about origin or medicinal use are left out.
  4. Short introductions and key points written with AI help (Google Gemini and Claude) and checked against GBIF where possible (reference). AI-assisted text for general readers. Please check important details before relying on them.

The tag before each record shows the place it was checked for.

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