Kauaʻi record · kba_plant_lantana_montevidensis
Trailing Lantana
Lantana montevidensis
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About Trailing Lantana
A low, unarmed, mat-forming subshrub with sprawling stems that root at ground-contacting nodes. Small ovate-to-narrow leaves have rough wrinkled upper surfaces and scalloped-toothed margins. Leaf-axil stalks carry rounded heads of lilac-to-purple or rose-magenta tubular flowers. Fertile wild forms can produce small dark-violet rounded drupes. Established wild occurrence warrants observations of occupied cover, reproductive plants and new recruits. These measurements can test persistence and spread. The reviewed accounts do not quantify an island-wide effect on Kauaʻi native vegetation.
Kauaʻi evidence
Generated media is not occurrence evidence. Proposed monitoring endpoints are not reported observations, measured effects or causal findings.
Names and classification
- Scientific name
- Lantana montevidensis
- Common names
- trailing lantana · weeping lantana
- Other names
- Lantana montevidensis · trailing lantana · weeping lantana
- Record type
- Species
Kauaʻi occurrence and status
- Kauaʻi occurrence
- Recorded on Kauaʻi
- Origin
- Introduced
- Conservation status
- Not yet assessed
- Evidence date
- 2026-10-07
- Evidence limits
- Island-level public occurrence only. Select one fertile wild form if drawing fruit; some cultivated chromosome forms are sterile. Do not add prickles.
Habitat and ecology
- Habitats
- Not yet assessed
- Food and resource needs
- Not yet assessed
- Reproduction
- Not yet assessed
- Shelter
- Not yet assessed
- Growth form
- Shrub or subshrub; Malodorous, low subshrubs; stems lax and sprawling or decumbent, rooting at nodes that touch the ground, up to 4 m long, mat-forming and usually many-branched, without prickles.
Threats and conservation
- Monitoring
- Occupied area and vegetation cover; Mature plants and new recruits; Reproductive plants and fruiting frequency. Proposed monitoring endpoints are not reported observations, measured effects or causal findings.
- Data gaps
- Current island extent and population trend · Measured local ecological effects
Process and seasonal context
- Seasonal timing
- Not yet assessed
- Seasonal description
- A low, unarmed, mat-forming subshrub with sprawling stems that root at ground-contacting nodes. Small ovate-to-narrow leaves have rough wrinkled upper surfaces and scalloped-toothed margins. Leaf-axil stalks carry rounded heads of lilac-to-purple or rose-magenta tubular flowers. Fertile wild forms can produce small dark-violet rounded drupes. Established wild occurrence warrants observations of occupied cover, reproductive plants and new recruits. These measurements can test persistence and spread. The reviewed accounts do not quantify an island-wide effect on Kauaʻi native vegetation.