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Scientific Name: | Doronicum spp. |
Common Name: | leopard's bane |
Family Name: | Asteraceae |
Origin: | Africa - northern, Europe |
Hardiness Zone: | Zone 4: (-34 to -29 °C) |
Plant Type: | Herbaceous perennial |
Mature Size: | 0.4 - 0.7m x 0.6 - 1.0m (height x width) |
Habit: | Arching, Spreading, Upright |
Form: | Oval - vertical |
Texture: | Medium - coarse |
Landscape Uses: | Attract butterflies, Cut flower or foliage, Mixed shrub border, Perennial border |
Exposure: | Part sun/part shade |
Soil or Media: | Humus rich, Well-drained |
Leaves: | Simple, Alternate, Basal, Soft flexible, Pinnate venation, Pubescent, Ovate, Crenate, Dentate |
Flowers: | Head (capitulum), Yellow, Mar-Apr-May |
Fruit: | Achene, Brown, May-Jun-Jul |
Key ID Features: | |
Leaves basal with long petioles, most blades ovate 6-10cm long x 3-6cm wide, base cordate, margin crenate-dentate; leaves on stem apetalate and clasping; flower heads 5-7cm wide, yellow, ray florets long, linear to elliptical. |