Want a tropical feel without the hefty airline price? Start by adding Ligularia japonica ‘Tractor Seat’ to the garden – it’s massive, Jurassic-sized, palm-shaped leaves with toothed margins give the shade garden an exotic feel, with its upright, aster-like flowers providing an explosion of bright color from mid-May to early July. Long, golden-yellow ray petals radiate around saffron centers, bringing a sunny disposition to filtered, dappled, partial, or even deep shade areas. Highly tolerant of and preferring consistently moist soil types, ‘Tractor Seat’ Leopard Plant, as it’s commonly known, thrives even in shady, damp, wooded conditions where not many other flowering perennials will make much of a statement. This specimen gives an otherworldly, prehistoric feeling without even having to leave the yard!

• Category: Perennials
• Alternate Cultivar: Tractor Seat
• Hardiness Zone: 4
• Height: 40 Inches
• Spread: 50 Inches
• Bloom Color: Yellow