Plants often purplish-tinged, glabrous or distally unevenly hairy; rootstocks stout, fibrous-rooted. Leaves: basal blades 20-45 × 20-40 cm, bases deeply cordate. Peduncles 2-9 cm. Involucres 9-12(-20) × 16-28 mm. Phyllaries greenish-tipped. Ray corolla laminae 20-35(-50) mm. Cypselae 8-10 mm; pappi 10-12 mm. 2n = 60.

Flowering summer. Disturbed sites, abandoned plantings; 10-50+ m; introduced; Md.; Asia (China, Japan).

Ligularia dentata is commonly cultivated in eastern Canada and the United States; it sometimes persists (as in Maryland).