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Russian Comfrey, Symphytum x uplandicum, Compar Rúiseach
Photographs: Garrylucas, Co. Cork

Russian Comfrey
Symphytum x uplandicum (S. asperum x S. officinale)
Compar Rúiseach
Family: Boraginaceae

Flowering May-June. Perennial. Introduced.

The bell-shaped flowers are usually pink at first then purplish-violet. Upper stem-leaves are narrowly winged below leaves. Rough, bristly-hairy stems, wings extending less than halfway to next axil. Height to 1.5m

A garden escape naturalised on damp ground beside river and marshes and on wet roadsides.

Similar: Common Comfrey, S. officinale. Stems deeply winged

Russian Comfrey, Symphytum x uplandicum, Compar Rúiseach

Russian Comfrey, Symphytum x uplandicum, Compar Rúiseach
Russian Comfrey, Symphytum x uplandicum, Compar Rúiseach

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