Family: Boraginaceae Russian comfrey Symphytum x uplandicum (S. asperum x officinale) Flowering time: May-August. Perennial. Introduced Grows on moist, fertile soils beside roads and tracks, on wasteground and at the edges of woodland and as a garden discard or relic of cultivation Bell-shaped flowers, usually pink at first then purplish-violet and upper stem-leaves only narrowly winged below leaves. Rough, bristly-hairy stems, wings extending less than halfway to next axil. Similar: Common Comfrey, S. officinale has deeply winged stems

Russian comfrey, Symphytum x uplandicum
Photographs: Kingston Lacy, Dorset. August and September 2020