lantana

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A: The flowers are purple lantana, a "shrubby ground cover," said Elbert Cox, senior landscape architect for Caltrans.

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  1. noun Any of various aromatic, chiefly tropical shrubs of the genus Lantana, having dense spikes or heads and small colorful flowers.

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  • Gold lantana and Asiatic jasmine are planted in the earth beams on the house's exterior, and Joe is proud of the work he has done to restore native Texas plants to the property. —  The Gazette-Enterprise: News
  • For trees and shrubs choose azalea, buddleia, cape honeysuckle, mimosa, weigela, flame acanthus, lantana, red buckeye and tree tobacco. —  Find Free Articles - ArticlesBase
  • For me, gardening simply has been a planter of lantana and some terra-cotta pots of snapdragons and geraniums. —  azcentral.com | news
  • We are growing tomatoes, geraniums, pansies, petunias, and this year we have the new plant lantana - with cascading flowers grown in the hanging baskets.
  • More common but still spectacular flowers in bloom there are lantana (not pictured) and Texas mountain laurel bluebonnets, paint brushes, primroses, etc. —  chron.com Chronicle
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  1. New Latin Lantana, genus name, from Italian dialectal lantana, wayfaring tree, viburnum, perhaps from Vulgar Latin *lentāgō, *lentāgin-, from Latin lentus, light, flexible.
 

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