Plants shrubs, to 2 m tall or more, usually armed with recurved prickles. Leaves opposite, petiolate; petioles 7-20 mm long; blades ovate t0o ovate-oblong, 2-12 cm long, 2-7 cm wide, bases raounded to cuneate, margins closely crenate-serrate, tips acute, surfaces scabrous, upper surfaces with impressed venation. Inflorescences axillary, more or less flat headlike clusters 2-3(-5) cm in diameter with axes 0.5-1 cm long; peduncles 1.5-10 cm long; bracts linear-lanceolate to lanceolate, 4-8(-13) mm long, 1-1.5 mm wide. Flowers: calyces about 3 mm long; corollas red, purple, pink, orange, yellow or white, tubes 8-13 mm long, densely puberulent outside, limbs 4-9 mm wide. Drupes purple or black, 3-5(-7) mm in diameter.
Lantana camara is probably native to the West Indies but it is often grown as an ormanental. Unfortunately, it easily beomes naturalized and may become an aggressive weed. It isnow widespread in all tropical and subtropical regions of the world. It is known from regions N1 and S2 of the Flora of Somalia.
Habit: shrubs, uo to 2 mm tall, usually with more or less recurved prickles on the stems.
Leaves: opposite, ovate to ovate oblong, 2-12 cm long, 2-7 mm wide, with closely crenate-serrate margins, acute tips, and upper surfaces with impressed veins.
Inflorescences: flat-topped, head-like spikes 2-3(-5) cm in diameter, the central axes 5-10 mm long.
Fruits: purple or black drupes abour 3-7 mm in diameter.
Lantana camara is thought to be native to the West Indies but it often grown as an ornamental and is now present in tropical and subtropical regions throughout the world. Unforunately, it frequently becomes naturalized and sometimes an agressive weed. Its planting is discouraged outside the Americas.