Seasonal Wild Flowers

Bulbous Comfrey

Symphytum bulbosum

Boraginaceae

April to May

My field guides gives June to August, but Bulbous Comfrey

flowers extensively in Abbotsbury, Dorset, in April and May.

It is very thinly scattered in the South, the Southwest, the

Northeast and East Anglia.

See the BSBI distribution map for Bulbous Comfrey

It is a neophyte which has become naturalised in the UK.

It grows beside roads, tracks and on waste ground.

Bulbous Comfrey is a patch-forming, low growing perennial

herb.

Flowers are creamy yellow.

The scales protrude from the corolla, with the style

extending beyond the scales.

Leaves run a short distance down the stem

Tubers are found just below the soil surface

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Bulbous Comfrey, Abbotsbury, Dorset

Flower cluster

Flower with protruding scales

Leaves

Leaf insertion- running short distance down stem

Tuber and roots

Typical comfrey-shaped clusters