Symphytum asperum

Plant Characteristics
Habit		herbaceous
Height:	⇕	4 ft"ft" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 4. to 5 ft"ft" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 5.
Width:	⇔	5 ft"ft" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 5. to 7 ft"ft" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 7.
Bloom:	❀	early summer, mid summer, late summer

Scientific Names
Boraginaceae >	Symphytum >	asperum >

Plant Characteristics
Origin:	✈	?

Cultivation

Exposure:	☼	?"?" is not in the list (sun, part-sun, shade, unknown) of allowed values for the "Exposure" property.
Water:	◍	?"?" is not in the list (wet, moist, moderate, dry, less when dormant) of allowed values for the "Water" property.

Scientific Names

Read about Symphytum asperum in the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture
Symphytum asperum, Lepech. (S. asperrimum, Donn). Prickle Comfrey. Fig. 3753. Perennial, 2 1/2 - 5 ft. or even more high: root thick: st. branched, uncinate: lvs. hispid or prickly on both surfaces, ovate or elliptical, acuminate; lower petioled base cordate or rotundate upper subpetioled, base cuneate: fls. at first rose then blue, smaller than those of S. officinale. Russia, Caucasus, Persia. B.M. 929.—Has some forage value. There are horticultural forms with yellow-variegated or -margined lvs. known as S. asperrimum aureo-variegatum, and S. asperrimum var. variegatum. ^CH The above text is from the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture. It may be out of date, but still contains valuable and interesting information which can be incorporated into the remainder of the article. Click on "Collapse" in the header to hide this text.

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