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Big leaf tiny blue flower??

*Astrantia**Astrantia* Posts: 291
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: 86,151
    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: 9,939
    Seems early for comfrey to be flowering. The leaves here are barely poking through.
    Tradition is just peer pressure from dead people
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 86,151
    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: 27,311
    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: 86,151
    I knew you’d know Nut 😊 

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





  • nutcutletnutcutlet Posts: 27,311
    edited April 2019
    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: 291
    It was in Somerset!😀
  • Busy-LizzieBusy-Lizzie Posts: 22,659
    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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