In mid to late summer, daisy-like, bright orange-yellow flowers (2-3" diameter) in loose corymbs rise above the foliage on stems to 36-40" tall.
Leaves typically form a basal foliage mound to 24" tall and as wide. Leaves may acquire some green tones as they age. Leaf color is a distinctive and showy purple-black. Ligularia dentata Othello 3L Common Name: Golden Groundsel A clump-forming herbaceous perennial with large, rounded, saw-edged leaves which are flushed deep. It is an imposing, clump-forming perennial that is grown in gardens as much for. Leathery, long-stalked, orbicular-reniform leaves (to 7" long by 9" wide) have wavy, coarsely-dentate margins. Ligularia dentata, commonly called leopard plant, is native to China and Japan. After her death, her husband, James Crawford, took steps to honor his wife by naming the cultivar after her and introducing it into commerce. This plant was first discovered by Britt-Marie Crawford growing in a plot of Ligularia dentata 'Othello' in Fife, Scotland, United Kingdom.
Its best ornamental feature is probably the leaves which generally retain good color throughout the growing season. Ligularia dentata, commonly called leopard plant, is native to China and Japan. 'Britt-Marie Crawford' is a clump-forming herbaceous perennial that is grown in gardens not only for its showy rounded clumps of large, glossy, purple-black leaves but also for its summer display of bold daisy-like orange-yellow flowers. Genus name comes from the Latin word ligula meaning strap in reference to the shape of the ray flowers. Ligularias can be large plants growing over 6 ft. Ligularia fruits are cylindrical, usually hairless achenes. They have daisy-like, yellow to orange flowers held on narrow spikes, on long cone-shaped spikes or in flat-topped clusters. Ligularias have a basal rosette of large kidney-shaped, heart-shaped or triangular, often toothed leaves and stem leaves that decrease in size and number as they go up the stem. Ligularia Dentata Othello Leopard Plant has rounded, large, leathery, bronze-tinted leaves with deep purple undersides. Most are native to Asia, especially Siberia, China and Japan. There are about 150 species in the genus, Ligularia.
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