Perennials: ligularia, 1 by altagardener

altagardener wrote:
Hey, no need to seem apologetic to me! :-) I'm sure I seem very stiff and formal (and, yes, a know-it-all to boot, which I should control better) but I'm not always quite so bad as all that. ;-)

Back to the subject... Here's a very cool, early-blooming one, with very different leaves - Ligularia macrophylla. This photo is from last year, although it has just started to bloom here, a couple of weeks early in this warm but dry spring.