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Missouri Botanical Garden PlantFinder lists Lantana camara for USDA Zones 10 to 11 (top growth winter hardy to Zones 10-11, roots hardy to Zone 9) in full sun with medium water; native range "Tropical America." In colder zones it is grown as an annual bedding plant, in containers, or as a houseplant.
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Per Missouri Botanical Garden, every part is best treated as off-limits to eat and the plant is grown for ornament, not food; the NC State Extension Gardener Plant Toolbox rates it medium-severity poisonous, with flowers, fruits, leaves, and sap/juice toxic (vomiting, diarrhea, dilated pupils, labored respiration, liver failure — most common in livestock) and the leaves causing contact dermatitis in sensitive people.
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Missouri Botanical Garden warns it "has escaped gardens throughout the world and is considered to be a noxious weed in many frost-free/tropical areas" and "has naturalized and is considered invasive in parts of the southern United States including southern Florida, the Gulf Coast and southern California" — consult local invasive-species resources before planting where winters are frost-free.
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Plotwright Heat Tier Hot-Extreme per ADR 0021 — a tropical-American shrub hardy only in frost-free USDA Zones 10-11, drought-tolerant, and thriving through the hottest North-American summers.