Ligularia fischeriTurcz.

WFO wfo-0000001422 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC BY / CC BY-SA

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 5 observations

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 5 times, so some figures below are different views of the same plant, taken on the same day, rather than different individuals. They are usually different parts of it: the leaf, the flower, the bark.

Ligularia fischeri, photographed by Marco Mussita
fig. a Marco Mussita, CC BY 4.0 / 2020-08-10 / obs. 90052186
Ligularia fischeri, photographed by Ochirnima Nimaev
fig. b Ochirnima Nimaev, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 111864848
Ligularia fischeri, photographed by Dinesh Valke
fig. c Dinesh Valke, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 172657306
Ligularia fischeri, photographed by Ochirnima Nimaev
fig. d Ochirnima Nimaev, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 111944712
Ligularia fischeri, photographed by Dinesh Valke
fig. e Dinesh Valke, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 172657308
Ligularia fischeri, photographed by Marco Mussita
fig. f Marco Mussita, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 90052835
Ligularia fischeri, photographed by Junichi　Mandai
fig. g Junichi　Mandai, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 150626537
Ligularia fischeri, photographed by Marco Mussita
fig. h Marco Mussita, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 90052731

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Native range 20 botanical countries

Regions where Ligularia fischeri is native: Amur, Buryatiya, China North-Central, China South-Central, China Southeast, Chita, Inner Mongolia, Japan, Khabarovsk, Korea, Manchuria, Mongolia, Primorye, Sakhalin, Assam, East Himalaya, Myanmar, Nepal, Pakistan, West Himalaya AmurBuryatiyaChina North-CentralChina South-CentralChina SoutheastChitaInner MongoliaJapanKhabarovskManchuriaMongoliaPrimoryeSakhalinAssamEast HimalayaMyanmarNepalPakistanWest Himalaya Korea
Native distribution of Ligularia fischeri, after Kew’s World Checklist of Vascular Plants. Introduced, extinct and doubtful records are excluded, so this is where the plant is from, not everywhere it now grows. Regions too small to draw at this scale are marked with a dot.
RegionTDWG codeContinent
Amur AMU ASIA-TEMPERATE
Buryatiya BRY
China North-Central CHN
China South-Central CHC
China Southeast CHS
Chita CTA
Inner Mongolia CHI
Japan JAP
Khabarovsk KHA
Korea KOR
Manchuria CHM
Mongolia MON
Primorye PRM
Sakhalin SAK
Assam ASS ASIA-TROPICAL
East Himalaya EHM
Myanmar MYA
Nepal NEP
Pakistan PAK
West Himalaya WHM

Region boundaries approximated from Natural Earth (public domain) and mapped to TDWG World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions (WGSRPD) level-3 botanical countries (Brummitt 2001). Indicative, not the official WGSRPD geometry.

Where it actually grows measured, from 70 observations

Condition 5th percentile Median 95th percentile
Coldest month, mean daily low -31.0 °C -20.7 °C -5.2 °C
Warmest month, mean daily high 16.2 °C 22.3 °C 25.0 °C
Annual rainfall 386 mm 935 mm 3,584 mm
Rainfall in the driest quarter 12 mm 74 mm 655 mm

It is found where winters are arctic. This is not care advice and it is not a forecast. It is a measurement: we sampled the climate at every one of the 70 research-grade observations of Ligularia fischeri that carry a coordinate, and this is the range those places actually span. The 5th and 95th percentiles are used rather than the minimum and maximum, because a single cultivated specimen in a heated conservatory should not widen a tropical plant's range to the Arctic.

This is not a hardiness zone. A USDA zone is the average annual extreme minimum temperature. The figure above is the mean daily minimum of the coldest month, which is a different quantity and is typically far warmer. Reading one as the other would place a plant several zones too warm, so we do not publish a hardiness zone, because we do not have one.

Also published as 13 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

  • Cineraria fischeri Ledeb.
  • Cineraria speciosa Fisch. ex Turcz.
  • Cineraria speciosa Schrad. ex Link
  • Hoppea speciosa (Schrad. ex Link) Rchb.
  • Ligularia fischeri f. fischeri
  • Ligularia glabrescens Vorosch.
  • Ligularia racemosa DC.
  • Ligularia sibirica var. longibracteata Kitam.
  • Ligularia sibirica var. racemosa (DC.) Kitam.
  • Ligularia sibirica var. speciosa (Schrad. ex Link) DC.
  • Ligularia speciosa (Schrad. ex Link) Fisch. & C.A.Mey.
  • Senecillis fischeri (Ledeb.) Kitam.
  • Senecio racemosus Wall.

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.
  3. Kew, World Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP v16). native distribution by TDWG level-3 botanical country, and life form. CC BY 3.0. Retrieved 2026-06-04.

We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice and no toxicity claim, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite.