Lantana montevidensis George Forrest for the neatly toothed

for the neatly toothed

Sometimes called Virginia willow for the shape of the leaves

Dryopteris ×remota

Deer tend to pass the gray foliage by

that same toughness makes 'Alba' a natural for the difficult wet and salty places where little else will flower so freely

Lantana montevidensis George Forrest for the neatly toothedWhere 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