Comfrey Medicinal.

Comfrey Medicinal

A perennial herbaceous plant of the borage family, up to 1 m high. The root is large, juicy, black-brown, arising from a short rhizome. The stem is branched and covered with stiff hairs.

The leaves are large, alternate, ovate or ovate-oblong, long-pointed; the upper ones are lanceolate, sessile. The flowers are pink or dirty purple, in curls. Blooms in May - July.

The fruit is a black, shiny nut. Ripens in July - September.

Comfrey is common in the European part of Russia, in the south of Western Siberia, in Kazakhstan and the Caucasus.

Grows in wet meadows, near ditches, on peat bogs, in