Family: Boraginaceae Hidcote Comfrey Symphytum x hidcotense (Symphytum officinale x asperum x grandiflorum) Flowering time: April-May. Perennial. Occurs as a garden escape or discard and often close to habitation on wasteground and roadsides One of only two stoloniferous comfreys and the only one of those with blue flowers. The buds are pink and the leaves are usually stalked and not or only very sligtly decurrent

Hidcote Comfrey, Symphytum x hidcotense
Photographs: Piddles Wood, Dorset. May 2019