Buttonsage Lantana (Lantana involucrata)Lantana involucrata, known as Button Sage, is the only true Florida native lantana that is a native to the Tampa Bay area and finding it can be a challenge. It is an evergreen shrub which produces dense clusters of small, fragrant, whitish, pale pink to lavender flowers. The lavender berries it produces are loved by birds. Button Sage is common in coastal areas from Central Florida to south Florida. It likes well drained soil and will take full to

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Plant it in the back of your garden and be prepared to let it go to seed — the seeds attract small birds which snack on them

It is host  plant for the queen

In my garden it has been blooming most of the year but a larger flush of blooms and berries between mid-October through December

It likes full sun

organic (muck)

This is a small

Whether planted for conservation

It likes sandy soil

they will come

Highly salt tolerant and likes sandy soils and lime rock

Larval host plant for Silvery Checkerspot butterfly