Early blooming perennial of woods and shaded mountain
rocks
18-24 inches tall and 12-18 inches wide
Yellow, solitary
head, 2 inches wide on a peduncle 12-15 inches
long.
Early to mid-spring.
Alternate, basal
leaves long-petioled,
deeply cordate. The stem leaves are of two
types: lower leaves are petiolate and subcordate,
while the upper stem leaves are ovate,
cordate clasping with those near the flower
linear-lanceolate. All leaves are coarsely
dentate.
'Finesse' - Yellow-orange flowers with
slender ray flowers, 15-18 inches tall.
'Magnificum' - Large yellow flowers,
24-30 inches tall, early bloom.
'Miss Mason' - This hybrid of
D. orientale x D. austriacum
has more persistent foliage than the
species. It has an earlier bloom and a longer
flowering period.
'Spring Beauty' - This 15-18 inch cultivar has golden-yellow
flowers.
Doronicum is not
heat tolerant. The common name leopardsbane
arose because arrows were once
dipped in the juice of one species for hunting
leopards.
