Symphytum asperum

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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
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Exposure: sun
Features: flowers
USDA Zones: 5 to 10
Flower features: red, pink
Scientific Names

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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 

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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