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Symphytum × uplandicum; photograph (c) Henry Miller, some rights reserved (CC BY) CC BY(c) Henry Miller, some rights reserved (CC BY) · observed growing wild · 2026-08-05

Symphytum × uplandicum Nyman

Russian comfrey; Upland comfrey; Quaker comfrey; Blue comfrey

Boraginaceae · Transcaucasus

A hybrid: S. asperum × S. officinale, the parents Kew's World Checklist states for it (WCVP, RBG Kew).

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Summary

Russian comfrey or Quaker comfrey (Symphytum × uplandicum, syn. S. peregrinum auct.) is a common hybrid between Symphytum officinale and S. asperum. It represents the economically most important kind of comfrey.

Quoted from Wikipedia, "Symphytum × uplandicum", CC BY-SA 4.0.

About the genus · Symphytum

Symphytum is a genus of flowering plants in the borage family, Boraginaceae, known by the common name comfrey.

Quoted from Wikipedia, "Symphytum", CC BY-SA 4.0.

Cultivation

Nothing derived: no habitat climate for this species.

Climate across the habitat

No habitat climate can be derived: No georeferenced record inside the range.

Natural habitat

Native range as published by WCVP.
No openly licensed record to show inside the range.
NativeTranscaucasus · introduced: Denmark, Finland, Great Britain, Ireland, Norway, Sweden, Austria, Belgium, Czechoslovakia, Germany, Netherlands, France, Spain, Baltic States, Central European Russia, North European Russia, West Siberia, British Columbia, Ontario, Prince Edward I., Québec, Washington, Connecticut, Michigan, New York, Pennsylvania, Vermont, Georgia, North Carolina · regions are the level-3 units of the World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions, as Kew's World Checklist records ranges, some under historical names such as Yugoslavia or Czechoslovakia (how).
Kew's description“perennial” · “temperate” · quoted from WCVP, RBG Kew (CC BY 4.0); not derived here
Evidence usedNo georeferenced record lies inside the stated native range, and all 1852 georeferenced records read lie outside it: the range and the records disagree. They are not used, and no map marker or climate is derived from them.

Photographs

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Photographs: (c) guywallbanks, some rights reserved (CC BY) (3); (c) Daniel Cahen, some rights reserved (CC BY) (2); (c) Henry Miller, some rights reserved (CC BY).

Other Symphytum 9 in the reference

Symphytum asperum Symphytum asperum Prickly comfrey Photo: CC BY, Екатерина КравцоваSymphytum bulbosum Symphytum bulbosum Bulbous Comfrey Photo: CC BY-SA, Andrea MologniSymphytum caucasicum Symphytum caucasicum Caucasian comfrey Photo: CC0, author not statedSymphytum cordatum Symphytum cordatum Boraginaceae Photo: CC BY, Алла КозуракSymphytum grandiflorum Symphytum grandiflorum Creeping comfrey Photo: CC BY, Наталья ПикаловаSymphytum officinale Symphytum officinale Common comfrey Photo: CC BY-SA, Douglas GoldmanSymphytum orientale Symphytum orientale White comfrey Photo: CC0, author not statedSymphytum tauricum Symphytum tauricum Crimean Comfrey Photo: CC BY, Viktor StrenadaSymphytum tuberosum Symphytum tuberosum Tuberous comfrey Photo: CC BY, Oleksandr Shynder

Names & registers

Also known as Symphytum xperegrinum; Symphytum xuplandicum. (GBIF Backbone)

Under another author Symphytum asperum x officinale and Symphytum asperum × officinale is an older name of this species, not Symphytum asperum, a species of the reference. (GBIF Backbone)

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The record

Family
Boraginaceae
Described by
Nyman
Native to
Transcaucasus
Wild records
none in range · 1852 outside it

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Where this page came from built 2026-10-22
GBIF species record gbif.species answeredasked 2026-10-22
GBIF synonyms gbif.synonyms answeredasked 2026-10-22
GBIF common names gbif.vernacular answeredasked 2026-10-22names fetched 2026-10-22
WCVP native range wcvp.distribution answeredas of 2026-06-04
GBIF occurrence records gbif.occurrences answeredas of 2026-10-21GBIF occurrence download https://doi.org/10.15468/dl.hbdw64, of 2026-10-21; 38 records within 1 km of a botanic garden, herbarium or zoo left out (32 at a botanic garden or arboretum, 1 at a herbarium, 5 at a zoo; Wikidata's list)
Habitat climate climate nothing to reportasked 2026-10-22no georeferenced record inside the range
Wikidata wikidata answeredasked 2026-10-22
Wikipedia wikipedia answeredasked 2026-10-22
iNaturalist photographs, wild inat.photos.wild answeredasked 2026-10-22from iNaturalist's open data of 2026-09-27: research-grade observations with an open-licence photograph, the 24 whose photographs iNaturalist received last (the open data holds no votes); filled 2026-10-22
iNaturalist photographs, cultivated inat.photos.cultivated not asked
GBIF media gbif.media answeredasked 2026-10-22
OpenAlex papers openalex not askednot yet asked for this reference; a later fill takes the papers from OpenAlex's snapshot

Every source is recorded as having answered, reported nothing, refused, failed, not been asked, or answered twice where one answer is taken (“not taken: two items answered”), and, for a source asked when this page was built, when: the figures are as the source held them that day; a source read from a file (Kew's World Checklist, a GBIF download) says "as of" the file's day instead; a row carried from an earlier build of the page names that build instead. Only “nothing to report” is ever shown as an absence. Records came from 93 datasets via GBIF.org; each carries its own licence.

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