The new and distinct cultivar of ornamental ligularia plant, Ligularia ‘King Kong’ with compact habit, vertical peduncle of dense clusters of large, upright, capitate, golden flowers on branched greyed-purple panicle. The shiny, magenta, orbicular to reniform leaves with coarsely serrated margins emerge from the ground on greyed-purple pubescent petioles and develop into a purplish dark green by late summer flowering.
