| Scientific Name: | Ligularia dentata |
| Common Name: | bigleaf goldenray |
| Family Name: | Asteraceae |
| Origin: | S.E. Asia / Japan / China |
| Hardiness Zone: | Zone 4: (-34 to -29 °C) |
| Plant Type: | Ground cover, Herbaceous perennial |
| Mature Size: | 0.7 - 1.3m x 1.0 - 1.5m (height x width) |
| Habit: | Open, Upright |
| Form: | Oval - horizontal |
| Texture: | Very coarse |
| Landscape Uses: | Aquatic - ponds, Container planting, Group or mass planting, Mixed shrub border, Perennial border, Specimen plant, Summer interest, Waterside planting, Wetland - bogs, Woodland margin |
| Exposure: | Full sun only if soil kept moist, Part sun/part shade, Filtered shade |
| Soil or Media: | Humus rich |
| Leaves: | Simple, Basal, Leathery, Heavily veined, Palmate venation, Glabrous, Orbicular, Reniform, Dentate |
| Flowers: | Head (capitulum), Orange, Yellow, Jul-Aug |
| Fruit: | Cypsela (achene + calyx), Brown, Aug-Sep |
| Key ID Features: | |
| Leaves basal, cordate, copper on top, purple on the bottom, most blades 15-25cm long x 17-30cm wide, margin dentate, petioles 20-50cm long; heads yellow, 6-10cm wide, 8-14 ray florets. | |