Symphytum
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| Symphytum | |
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| Symphytum caucasicum | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Asterids |
| Order: | Boraginales |
| Family: | Boraginaceae |
| Subfamily: | Boraginoideae |
| Genus: | Symphytum L. |
| Type species | |
| Symphytum officinale L.
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Symphytum is a genus of flowering plants in the family Boraginaceae. Its species are known by the common name comfrey. There are up to 35 known species.[1] Some species and hybrids, particularly S. officinale and S. × uplandicum, are used in gardening and herbal medicine.
Species include:
- Symphytum asperum (synonym: S. asperrimum) – Prickly comfrey, rough comfrey
- Symphytum bulbosum – Bulbous comfrey
- Symphytum caucasicum – Caucasian comfrey
- Symphytum ibericum – Creeping comfrey, Iberian comfrey,[2]
- Symphytum officinale – Comfrey
- Symphytum orientale – White comfrey
- Symphytum tauricum – Crimean comfrey
- Symphytum tuberosum – Tuberous comfrey
- Symphytum × uplandicum (S. asperum × S. officinale, synonym: S. peregrinum) – Russian comfrey, healing herb, blackwort, bruisewort, wallwort, gum plant
References
- ^ Miranda, Kimberley (9 July 2010). "Symphytum". hortweek.com. Retrieved 23 April 2017.
- ^ "Symphytum ibericum". rhs.org.uk. Retrieved 23 April 2017.
External links
Media related to Symphytum at Wikimedia Commons
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