Thursday, December 29, 2011

Plant: Lantana camara...........

Lantana... this Verbenaceae family member is a major weed worldwide, encroaching agricultural fields, not to say the rapid, unchecked dominance in abandoned lands... 

In semi-arid US Southwest, they are a major part of landscaping....they make dense groundcover, fence...supply nectar for birds  and butterflies......
they come in so many colors...lets have a look...










Beautifying the median of roads in Irvine, CA.......

Recently, the medicinal uses of this plant has been validated..an array of phytochemicals have been isolated from Lantana..
I have published a scientific paper on possible utilities of this weed as a sustainable management strategy. 
http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs11157-011-9254-7

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