Index / Search / Symphytum officinale
§1 Plant
Symphytum officinale L.
vernacular common comfrey — species · Boraginaceae
§2Habit & range
Habit and range
- Growth habit
- Forb/herb
- Duration
- Perennial
- Group
- Dicot
- Family
- Boraginaceae Juss.
- Genus
- Symphytum
Native status, by region
- CAN Canada Introduced
- L48 Lower 48 States Introduced
- SPM St. Pierre & Miquelon Introduced
County-level range
· 239 counties across 29 states/territories§3Cultivation
No cultivation specs.
USDA has not characterised this taxon. Roughly four out of five plants in the database lack the detailed cultivation record present here — typically because they have not been the focus of NRCS Plant Materials work. Range and distribution data are unaffected.
§4Counties, by state
Recorded in 239 counties across 29 states/territories.
Arkansas view state ↗ 1 I ▾
California view state ↗ 2 I ▾
Colorado view state ↗ 2 I ▾
Delaware view state ↗ 1 I ▾
District of Columbia view state ↗ 1 I ▾
Idaho view state ↗ 6 I ▾
Illinois view state ↗ 11 I ▾
Kansas view state ↗ 1 I ▾
Maine view state ↗ 9 I ▾
Massachusetts view state ↗ 10 I ▾
Michigan view state ↗ 17 I ▾
Minnesota view state ↗ 4 I ▾
Missouri view state ↗ 3 I ▾
Montana view state ↗ 6 I ▾
New Hampshire view state ↗ 4 I ▾
New Jersey view state ↗ 10 I ▾
New Mexico view state ↗ 1 I ▾
New York view state ↗ 40 I ▾
- Albany 36001
- Allegany 36003
- Bronx 36005
- Broome 36007
- Cattaraugus 36009
- Cayuga 36011
- Chemung 36015
- Chenango 36017
- Cortland 36023
- Delaware 36025
- Dutchess 36027
- Erie 36029
- Essex 36031
- Fulton 36035
- Herkimer 36043
- Jefferson 36045
- Lewis 36049
- Madison 36053
- Monroe 36055
- Nassau 36059
- Oneida 36065
- Onondaga 36067
- Ontario 36069
- Oswego 36075
- Otsego 36077
- Putnam 36079
- Queens 36081
- Rensselaer 36083
- Schoharie 36095
- Schuyler 36097
- St. Lawrence 36089
- Tioga 36107
- Tompkins 36109
- Ulster 36111
- Warren 36113
- Washington 36115
- Wayne 36117
- Westchester 36119
- Wyoming 36121
- Yates 36123
Ohio view state ↗ 12 I ▾
Oklahoma view state ↗ 1 I ▾
Oregon view state ↗ 11 I ▾
Pennsylvania view state ↗ 27 I ▾
- Allegheny 42003
- Blair 42013
- Bradford 42015
- Bucks 42017
- Cambria 42021
- Chester 42029
- Crawford 42039
- Delaware 42045
- Greene 42059
- Jefferson 42065
- Lackawanna 42069
- Lancaster 42071
- Lehigh 42077
- Luzerne 42079
- McKean 42083
- Monroe 42089
- Montgomery 42091
- Northampton 42095
- Philadelphia 42101
- Schuylkill 42107
- Tioga 42117
- Warren 42123
- Washington 42125
- Wayne 42127
- Westmoreland 42129
- Wyoming 42131
- York 42133
Tennessee view state ↗ 3 I ▾
Utah view state ↗ 3 I ▾
Vermont view state ↗ 9 I ▾
Virginia view state ↗ 8 I ▾
Washington view state ↗ 17 I ▾
West Virginia view state ↗ 2 I ▾
§5Sources & provenance
USDA PLANTS
Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.
plants.usda.gov/SYOF ↗GBIF Backbone
Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.
gbif.org/species/7558421 ↗Record version
Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:
usda-plants-mt-2026-05-26
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