Symphytum asperum
Habit | herbaceous
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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 |
Exposure: | ☼ | sun |
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Features: | ✓ | flowers |
USDA Zones: | 5 to 10 | |
Flower features: | ❀ | red, pink |
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Symphytum asperum is a flowering plant of the genus Symphytum in the family Boraginaceae.
Common names: Rough Comfrey, Prickly Comfrey.
Read about Symphytum asperum in the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture
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Symphytum asperum, Lepech. (S. asperrimum, Donn). Prickle Comfrey. 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
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