Leopard's-bane - Doronicum pardalianches

D. pardalianches is a herbaceous perennial spreading by underground runners. Loosely-branched clusters of light-yellow flowers are carried on upright stems, to 90 cm tall.  Basal leaves cordate with many hairs on petiole. 

Other species and hybrids are grown in gardens and may naturalise in woodlands and shady places, including Doronicum plantagineum (with cuneate basal leaves) and Doronicum x excelsum 'Harpur Crewe' (slighlty cordate basal leaves, few hairs on petiole). 

A photograph of the whole plant, showing basal leaves at flower heads.  This species cannot be verified from a photograph of the flower alone.

Grown as a cultivated plant and occasionally escaping and persisting for a time in the wild in woodland, streamsides and roadside verges.

Flowers from mid spring to early summer.

Perennial

frequent

Scarce as a naturalised plant in Leicestershire and Rutland. In the 1979 Flora survey of Leicestershire it was found in 8 of the 617 tetrads.