The woody suckers are hard to get rid off, and I have used a chain and pick-up to clean-out major infestations, and followed up with a roto-tiller to be sure they were gone.

The leaves are fine, but the stems and flowers are ugly, IMHO, and they spread out to the detriment of other plants.

i’ve read that lantana is on the list of plants that should be kept out of the reach of pets, but he’d been nibbling for 5+ years on some poor, wretchedly puny but resolute, unidentified and unidentifiable weed that kept trying to grow at our former residence without any noticeable ill effects. i only found out what it was when i went to back visit a year or so later and it had actually grown into a recognizable shrub.

he’s 12 or 13 now, and the vet always pronounces him to be in fabulously good health at checkup time, so i let him nibble when we’re out on our walks. probably i wouldn’t be so cavalier if he were an outside dog i had bunches of the stuff growing the yard, but a half-dozen leaves once or twice a week doesn’t seem to have hurt him.

I was impressed by the Canadian frogs that live through the Winter frozen, and then bounce back to life in the Spring, and the algae that have replaced arsenic with oxygen for photosynthesis.

It looks like there will need to be some rethinking about what is required to support life.

although it’s a little scary to think of what alterations that might have made on their dna and what kind of critters we might have made them into. also scary in that it implies maybe not all bacteria in our food are going to be susceptible irradiation.