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Big leaf tiny blue flower??

*Astrantia**Astrantia* Posts: 307
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while walking through some woodland recently I saw loads of these but don’t know what they’re called? Can anyone help?

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  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    It looks to me like the blue/purple flowered form
    of Common Comfrey - Symphytum Officinale. 
    😊 

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • wild edgeswild edges Posts: 10,497
    Seems early for comfrey to be flowering. The leaves here are barely poking through.
    If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    I’ve a feeling the OP is London based ... it’ll be earlier there than up on those welsh hills 😉

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • nutcutletnutcutlet Posts: 27,445
    It's a comfrey but it's not officinale. Might be Symphytum asperum. There are many species and hybrids and cultivars that often get the wrong ID


    In the sticks near Peterborough
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    I knew you’d know Nut 😊 

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • nutcutletnutcutlet Posts: 27,445
    edited April 2019
    Dovefromabove said:
    I knew you’d know Nut 😊 
    Someone on this forum IDd the blue one for me years ago. It's a great bee plant


    In the sticks near Peterborough
  • *Astrantia**Astrantia* Posts: 307
    It was in Somerset!😀
  • Busy-LizzieBusy-Lizzie Posts: 24,043
    My comfrey is in flower in SW France. That blue one is pretty, mine's mostly pink.
    Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
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