Family: Boraginaceae Genus: SymphytumSpecies description: Stock stout, vertical, branched. Stem (30-)50-120 cm, stout,erect, often branched. Leaves large, ovate-lanceolate to lanceolate, acuminate; the middle and upper sessile, often decurrent. Cymes many-flowered. Calyx lobed to 3/4 - 4/5, with lanceolate lobes. Corolla 12-18 mm, purple-violet or dirty pink or white, with deflexed lobes. Scales broadly triangular-lanceolate, the lower marginal papilae shortly cylindric-conical, the upper much smaller an shorter, all dense. Stamens with connective projecting from beyond thecae; filaments as wide as anther. Nutlets 5-6 mm, black, very smooth, shining.
Ssp oficinale: (...), throughout the range of the species.Ssp uliginosom: (...), E.C. Europe
Field Notes:
Habitat: River-banks and damp grassland
Distribution: Much of Europe, but rare in the extreme south and only as a naturalized alien in much of the north. Au Be Br Bu Cz Ga Ge He Ho Hs Hu It Ju ?Lu Po Rm Rs(C, W, K, E) Sa Si Tu [Da Fe Hb No Rs (N, B) Su]. Found: N.Netherlands; N.Groningen road from Winsum to Baflo Date: 15-6-95 Flora Europea:3-104 Literatuur:Notes: Pictures: not yet
Pictures: A.Voswinkel, The Netherlands email: aart@knoware.nl