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Common Comfrey

Symphytum officinale

2,637Records since 2000
MayPeak month
107Counties with records

When it is recorded

Jan5
Feb5
Mar23
Apr259
May652
Jun570
Jul341
Aug315
Sep190
Oct77
Nov26
Dec0

GBIF records by month, 2000–2025 (all years combined).

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Cambridgeshire England184
2Oxfordshire England174
3Suffolk England129
4Worcestershire England129
5Dorset England99
6West Berkshire England60
7Somerset England58
8Herefordshire, County of England57
9Essex England50
10Gloucestershire England43
11Surrey England42
12Sefton England39
13Devon England35
14Norfolk England28
15Bath and North East Somerset England23
1,463 England116 Scotland27 Wales4 Northern Ireland

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 107 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
2,637
Peak month
May
Counties with records
107
Scientific name
Symphytum officinale
Group
Flowering plants
NBN Atlas records since 2000
9,452
Conservation designations
GB Red List (2001 IUCN criteria)
Kingdom
Plantae
Phylum
Tracheophyta
Class
Magnoliopsida
Order
Boraginales
Family
Boraginaceae
Genus
Symphytum
Name with authority
Symphytum officinale L.
Contributing datasets
40

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q157561 · GBIF 7558421