General Plant Information (Edit)
Plant Habit: Herb/Forb
Life cycle: Perennial
Sun Requirements: Full Sun
Full Sun to Partial Shade
Water Preferences: Mesic
Soil pH Preferences: Slightly acid (6.1 – 6.5)
Neutral (6.6 – 7.3)
Slightly alkaline (7.4 – 7.8)
Minimum cold hardiness: Zone 6b -20.6 °C (-5 °F) to -17.8 °C (0 °F)
Maximum recommended zone: Zone 8b
Plant Height: 24-36 inches
Plant Spread: 18-24 inches
Leaves: Deciduous
Flowers: Showy
Flower Color: Yellow
Bloom Size: 1"-2"
Flower Time: Spring
Late spring or early summer
Summer
Underground structures: Rhizome
Uses: Cut Flower
Will Naturalize
Wildlife Attractant: Bees
Butterflies
Propagation: Other methods: Division
Pollinators: Beetles
Moths and Butterflies
Flies

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Common names
  • Great Leopard's Bane
  • Giant Leopard's Bane

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Location: Hortus Botanicus Akureyensis - Akureya - Iceland
Location: Botanischer Garten Berlin
Date: 2023-05-11
Location: Hortus Botanicus Akureyensis - Akureya - Iceland
Date: 2019-07-29
Location: Botanischer Garten Berlin
Date: 2023-05-11
Location: Botanical Garden Meise (Belgium)
Date: 2017-07-18
Location: Hortus Botanicus Akureyensis - Akureya - Iceland
Location: CZ Sirem My garden
Date: 2015-05-03
Location: CZ Sirem My garden
Date: 2015-05-03
Location: Cambridge University Botanic Garden
Date: April
credit: Magnus Manske
Location: Botanical Garden Meise (Belgium)
Location: Botanical Garden Meise (Belgium)
Date: 2017-07-18
Location: CZ Sirem My garden
Date: 4000-05-04
Location: CZ Sirem My garden
Date: 2015-05-03

Date: 2008-06-20
Figure from Deutschlands Flora in Abbildungen 1796 Johann Georg S

Date: 2006-07-03
Flora Batava, Volume 7 (1830) Janus (Jan) Kops

Photo courtesy of: Rillke
Location: Great Leopards-Bane, Doronicum pardalianches, Speir's School grounds, Ayrshire, Scotland
Photo courtesy of: Rosser1954

Date: 2012-05-29
Photo courtesy of: Meneerke bloem

Date: 2012-05-29
Photo courtesy of: Meneerke bloem
Location: Doronicum pardalianches, in a wild garden in Belgium
Date: 2013-10-28
Photo courtesy of: Jamain
Location: Cambridge University Botanic Garden
Date: April
credit: Magnus Manske

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