Plants · La Saladita, Guerrero

common lantana

Lantana camara

Spanish: Supirrosa

Lantana camara, also known as big-sage (Malaysia), wild-sage, red-sage, white-sage (Caribbean) and tickberry (South Africa), is a species of flowering plant within the verbena family, Verbenaceae, that is native to the American tropics.

TaxonomyMagnoliopsida › Lamiales › Verbenaceae

Local records14 research-grade observations within about 50 km of La Saladita (the survey box also takes in Zihuatanejo, Ixtapa and Troncones)

Global records100,742 on iNaturalist

Most recent records2022 – 2026

Months of the 8 most recent records

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Recent local sightings

2026-07-27 — observation by mora17918
2025-09-13 — observation by javiperezsoza
2025-07-16 — observation by olgajudith
2025-01-10 — observation by zihuadean
2025-01-05 — observation by zihuadean
2024-05-18 — observation by ekdelval

Interactive card with more photos, sounds and similar species Plants guide iNaturalist Wikipedia

Cite as: “common lantana (Lantana camara) at La Saladita”, La Saladita Field Guide, lasaladita.com/species/lantana-camara/, updated 2026-10-18. Observation counts and months come from iNaturalist research-grade records within about 50 km of 17.8375°N, 101.7606°W (the survey box also takes in Zihuatanejo, Ixtapa and Troncones); summary text from Wikipedia where present.