Ligularia
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Genus
In biology, a genus is a low-level taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms, which is an example of definition by genus and differentia...
of "Old World" perennial plant
Perennial plant
A perennial plant or simply perennial is a plant that lives for more than two years. The term is often used to differentiate a plant from shorter lived annuals and biennials. The term is sometimes misused by commercial gardeners or horticulturalists to describe only herbaceous perennials...
s or herb
Herb
Except in botanical usage, an herb is "any plant with leaves, seeds, or flowers used for flavoring, food, medicine, or perfume" or "a part of such a plant as used in cooking"...
s resembling groundsel
Senecio
Senecio is a genus of the daisy family that includes ragworts and groundsels. The flower heads are normally rayed, completely yellow, and the heads are borne in branched clusters...
of the family Asteraceae
Asteraceae
The Asteraceae or Compositae , is an exceedingly large and widespread family of vascular plants. The group has more than 22,750 currently accepted species, spread across 1620 genera and 12 subfamilies...
. Ligularias are rather tall perennial
Perennial plant
A perennial plant or simply perennial is a plant that lives for more than two years. The term is often used to differentiate a plant from shorter lived annuals and biennials. The term is sometimes misused by commercial gardeners or horticulturalists to describe only herbaceous perennials...
herbaceous
Herbaceous
A herbaceous plant is a plant that has leaves and stems that die down at the end of the growing season to the soil level. They have no persistent woody stem above ground...
plants occurring mostly in damp places in Europe
Europe
Europe is, by convention, one of the world's seven continents. Comprising the westernmost peninsula of Eurasia, Europe is generally 'divided' from Asia to its east by the watershed divides of the Ural and Caucasus Mountains, the Ural River, the Caspian and Black Seas, and the waterways connecting...
, Asia
Asia
Asia is the world's largest and most populous continent, located primarily in the eastern and northern hemispheres. It covers 8.7% of the Earth's total surface area and with approximately 3.879 billion people, it hosts 60% of the world's current human population...
and Africa
Africa
Africa is the world's second largest and second most populous continent, after Asia. At about 30.2 million km² including adjacent islands, it covers 6% of the Earth's total surface area and 20.4% of the total land area...
. Some of them are cultivated as ornamentals
Ornamental plant
Ornamental plants are plants that are grown for decorative purposes in gardens and landscape design projects, as house plants, for cut flowers and specimen display...
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Some species
- Ligularia carpathica (Schott) Pojark.
- Ligularia dentataLigularia dentataLigularia dentata, or summer ragwort and leopard plant, is a species of the genus Ligularia and the family Asteraceae.It is a perennial native to China and Japan.-Description:The plant is a clump-forming perennial...
(A. Gray) H. Hara - Ligularia dolichobotrys Diels
- Ligularia fischeri Turcz.
- Ligularia hodgsonii Hook.
- Ligularia intermedia Nakai
- Ligularia kingiana (W. W. Sm.) R. Mathur
- Ligularia macrophylla (Ledeb.) DC.
- Ligularia mortonii (C. B. Clarke) Hand.-Mazz.
- Ligularia pachycarpa (C. B. Clarke ex Hook. f.) Kitam. ex H. Hara
- Ligularia przewalskiiLigularia przewalskiiLigularia przewalskii Diels, also called Przewalski's golden ray is a species of tall perennial herbaceous plants in the genus Ligularia and the family Asteraceae, native to damp places in Mongolia and Northern China and named after Nikolai Przhevalsky. It used to be called Senecio przewalskii...
(Maxim.) Diels - Ligularia retusa DC.
- Ligularia schmidtii (Maxim.) Makino
- Ligularia sibiricaLigularia sibiricaLigularia sibirica is the type species for the genus Ligularia. It is a 0.3-1.3 m tall perennial herbaceous plant, native to fens and damp grassy meadows in Siberia, Central and Eastern Europe...
(L.) Cass. - Ligularia splendens (H. Lév. & Vaniot) Nakai
- Ligularia stenocephalaLigularia stenocephalaLigularia stenocephala is a species of the genus Ligularia and the family Asteraceae. It used to be Senecio....
(Maxim.) Matsum. & Koidz. - Ligularia stenoglossa (Franch.) Hand.-Mazz.
- Ligularia veitchiana (Hemsl.) Greenm.