Common comfrey Symphytum officinale

Features

Perennial with strong rhizome. It grows up to 80 cm in height. Living space - along watercourses, wet meadows, ditches.

Species	Perrenial
Living space	River edge, Rivers, Streams, Wet site
Size	up to 80 cm

Description

The stem is wingedly rough and has grown in the upper part. Leaves broadly lanceolate, on the underside have pronounced veins, the lower leaves long-stalked, the upper sessile, elongated along the stem down. Flowers in dense raceme, corolla tubular bell-shaped, 2 times longer than the calyx. It appears in wet meadows, in ditches, along rivers, in moist habitats in light forests from the lowlands to the Montana belt. It is a medicinal plant used for tea in diseases of the respiratory, gastric, circulatory, compresses for bone fractures, chronic joint diseases and inflammation of wounds.