Common Name:
PRICKLY COMFREY, ROUGH COMFREY
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Coefficient of Conservatism:
*
Coefficient of Wetness:
5
Wetness Index:
UPL
Physiognomy:
Ad P-Forb
A native of the Caucasus region, also cultivated and rarely escaped to roadsides and yards. First collected in 1898 in Jackson Co.
Intermediate plants with ± prickly stems (though perhaps the prickles fewer, straighter, and/or less flattened), with calyx intermediate (ca. 4.5–7 mm long at anthesis), and sometimes with ± decurrent leaves are apparently the hybrid S. ×uplandicum Nyman, which is more common than pure S. asperum. Specimens referable to the hybrid are known from Cheboygan, Gratiot, Ingham, Iron, and Washtenaw Cos.