Lantana camara, also known as wild-sage, Ghaneri, red-sage, tickberry, and Spanish flag, is a highly invasive, perennial flowering shrub native to the American tropics, notorious as one of the world's ten worst weeds. While popular in gardens for its colorful, changing flowers, it forms dense thickets that destroy biodiversity, release allelopathic chemicals to suppress other plants, and are toxic to livestock. Despite its negative ecological impact, it has high ornamental value and is used in traditional medicine for treating illnesses like cancer, skin itches, and asthma due to its bioactive compounds. The Lantana plant bears fruit as various butterflies, such as skippers and Common Mormon (Papilio polytes), along with bees like blue-banded bees (Amegilla cingulata), visit the flowers to feed on the nectar in Tehatta, West Bengal, India, on October 22, 2025.
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