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, blades up to 25cm long and petioles even longer; heads yellow, up to 6cm wide.