Native to Hispaniola and Cuba. Extremely heat tolerant. So heat tolerant in fact that it dies back from cold in USDA zone 9! It prefers zones 10-11. Drought tolerant once established. Loves full sun.
Member of the spurge family so it is toxic in all the same ways a poinsettia is. Leaves, roots, stems, flowers, especially seeds. Introduced to my area of the Gulf coast but not considered invasive.
That's neat to hear. There's two types here in Texas, Common Lantana, which is the white/pink/blue flowers, and Wild Lantana which is yellow/orange/red. The Wild is native here while the Common is considered invasive because it supposedly outgrows the wild one but i see them both about the same frequency. The Common also feeds the same pollinators as the Wild so who even knows.