The elongated white style projects from the center while it ripens.Ĭommon Comfrey is another garden escapee that, while not widespread, is likely under-reported in Minnesota. Stems are erect to ascending, multiple from the base and forming dense clumps, branched in the upper plant, and densely covered in bristly hairs.įruit is a cluster of 4 nutlets that mature to shiny brownish-black. The winged leaf stalks extend down the stem (decurrent). Basal leaves are largest and long-stalked, becoming smaller and shorter-stalked as they ascend the stem with the upper leaves stalkless or nearly so. Leaves are basal, alternate on the lower stem and may be opposite in the upper plant, 2 to 10 inches long, ¾ to 4 inches wide, lance-elliptic to egg-shaped, toothless, bristly hairy, tapering to a pointed tip and narrowing at the base to a winged stalk. Calyx and flower stalks are both covered in spreading, bristly hairs. The calyx behind the flower has 5 lobes that are lance shaped and shorter than the floral tube. Inside the tube are 5 stamens and a long, white style that barely protrudes beyond the mouth of the bell.
The bell-like flower has 5 shallow but distinct lobes that are strongly curled back the tubular throat is about as long as the bell. Clusters are initially tightly coiled, unwinding as it matures. Racemes of ½-inch hanging, funnel-shaped, pink to purplish flowers on slender stalks, arising from leaf axils and the end of branching stems in the upper part of the plant.
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