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Identification Guide:
Lantana flowers
There are five main flower colour varieties of the weedy form of Lantana camara in Australia.
Pink Lantana camara
Bud: pink/parchment
Photo: Jeff Wright
Middle ring: yellow throat,
pale yellow petals
Outer ring: orange throat,
pale or dark pink petals
White Lantana camara
Bud: cream
Photo: Jeff Wright
Middle ring: yellow throat,
pale yellow petals
Outer ring: orange or yellow
throat, lilac petals
Pink-edged Red Lantana camara
Photo: Mick Richards
Bud: pink to dull red
Middle ring: orange throat,
pale yellow to orange petals
Outer ring: orange throat, with
two-toned pink to red colour
petals (inner darker than outer)
Photo: Alan Fletcher Research Station
Red Lantana camara
Bud: blood red
Middle ring: yellow
throat with yellow petals
Outer ring: red throat
with red petals
Orange Lantana camara
Photo: Mick Richards
Bud: orange
Middle ring: yellow to
orange throat, yellow petals
Outer ring: orange throat,
orange petals
Other weedy and ornamental forms of lantana include:
Hawaiian pink Lantana camara
Bud: orange
Photo: Jeff Wright
Middle ring: yellow throat,
yellow petals
Outer ring: pink to dark
pink throat, dark pink to
crimson petals
Ornamental Yellow Lantana spp.
Ornamental varieties come in a range of other
flower colours.
Photo: Mick Richards
Bud: greeny yellow
Middle and outer ring: ochre
yellow throat and petals
Lilac Lantana montevidensis (Creeping lantana)
Photo: Glenn Leiper
Bud: lilac
Middle and outer ring: white
throat, lilac to mauve petals
Ornamental Lilac Lantana montevidensis
Ornamental White Lantana montevidensis
Bud: white to cream
Outer ring: pale yellow
throat, white petals
12/03
Photo: Mick Richards
Middle ring: yellow throat,
white petals
© The State of Queensland (Department of Natural Resources and Mines) 2003
Middle and outer ring:
white to yellow throat,
lilac to mauve petals
Both species and all ornamental varieties of lantana are considered to be weeds.
For more information: <www.nrm.qld.gov.au/pests/wons/lantana>
#16988 QNRM03382
Photo: Mick Richards
Bud: lilac