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Big leaf tiny blue flower??
*Astrantia*
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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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Dovefromabove
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It looks to me like the blue/purple flowered form
of Common Comfrey - Symphytum Officinale.
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Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
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wild edges
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Seems early for comfrey to be flowering. The leaves here are barely poking through.
Tradition is just peer pressure from dead people
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Dovefromabove
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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.
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nutcutlet
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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
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Dovefromabove
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I knew you’d know Nut 😊
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
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nutcutlet
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Dovefromabove
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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
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*Astrantia*
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It was in Somerset!😀
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Busy-Lizzie
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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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of Common Comfrey - Symphytum Officinale.
😊
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
In the sticks near Peterborough
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
In the sticks near Peterborough