Lantana montevidensis George Forrest at the corner of a

at the corner of a house

but 'Apollo' earns a place as a full

Sometimes called Virginia willow for the shape of the leaves

in a shrub border

Deer tend to pass the gray foliage by

Lantana montevidensis George Forrest at the corner of aWhere the shrubby lantanas stand up, Lantana montevidensis lies down and travels. This is the trailing lantana, a low, weeping member of the verbena family, Verbenaceae, native to the warm grasslands of southern South America, from southern Brazil across Uruguay and Paraguay into Argentina. The species carries a place name in the epithet: montevidensis means of Montevideo, the Uruguayan capital near which the plant was first gathered and described, so