Seasonal Wild Flowers

Hidcote Blue Comfrey

Symphytum 'Hidcote Blue' (S. asperum x grandiflorum

x officinale)

Boraginaceae

April to August

It is scattered throughout but is more common in the South

and western side of the country.

For a map see the National Biodiversity Network Gateway

It is a garden plant developed by Hidcote Nursary in the 1930s

and recognised as naturalised in the wild around 1980.

It grows in rough grassland, relic gardens, churchyards, woodland

and hedges.

Hidcote Comfrey is a clump forming perennial growing up to 90cm.

Flowers are azure blue in dangling clusters.

Sepals are divided less than half way.

Leaves are green, rough, hairy and stalked.

It is an aggressive plant and is probably thrown out of gardens

and then grows in the wild.

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Hidcote Comfrey, Somerset

Stalked leaves and flowers

Close-up of flowers

Close-up of sepals