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Internal ID UUID643ffc2d22bdb105533553
Scientific name Symphytum asperum
Authority Lepech.
First published in Nova Acta Acad. Sci. Imp. Petrop. Hist. Acad. 14: 442 (1805)

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Scientific name Authority First published in
Symphytum echinatum Ledeb. Enum. Pl. Horti Bot. Dorpat. , Suppl.: 5 (1811)
Symphytum asperrimum Donn Bot. Mag. 24: t. 929 (1806)
Symphytum armeniacum Buckn. J. Linn. Soc., Bot. 41: 520 (1913)
Symphytum asperum var. armeniacum (Buckn.) Kurtto Ann. Bot. Fenn. 19: 186 (1982)

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Language Common/alternative name
English prickly comfrey
Arabic شاغة خشنة
Azerbaijani cod xəndəkotu
Belarusian Жывакост жорсткі
Belarusian Жывакост цвёрды
Czech kostival drsný
Welsh cyfardwf arw
Danish ru kulsukker
German symphytum armeniacum
German kaukasus-comfrey
German rauer beinwell
Estonian kare varemerohi
Persian هماور زبر
Finnish tarharaunioyrtti
French consoude hérissée
French consoude rude
Irish compar rúiseach
Armenian Քարխոտ կոշտ
Icelandic burstavalurt
Norwegian Bokmål fôrvalurt
Dutch ruwe smeerwortel
Russian Окопник жёсткий
Swedish fodervallört
Chinese 糙叶聚合草

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  • Asia-temperate
    • Caucasus
      • North Caucasus
      • Transcaucasus
    • Middle Asia
      • Kirgizstan
      • Tadzhikistan
    • Western Asia
      • Iran
      • Turkey
  • Europe
    • Eastern Europe
      • Belarus
      • Central European Russia
      • East European Russia
      • Ukraine
    • Middle Europe
      • Austria
      • Belgium
      • Czechoslovakia
      • Switzerland
    • Northern Europe
      • Denmark
      • Finland
      • Great Britain
      • Norway
      • Sweden
    • Southwestern Europe
      • France
  • Northern America
    • Eastern Canada
      • New Brunswick
      • Newfoundland
      • Nova Scotia
      • Ontario
      • Prince Edward Island
      • Québec
    • North-central U.S.A.
      • Minnesota
      • Wisconsin
    • Northeastern U.S.A.
      • Connecticut
      • Maine
      • Massachusetts
      • Michigan
      • New York
      • Ohio
      • Vermont
    • Northwestern U.S.A.
      • Oregon
      • Washington
    • Southwestern U.S.A.
      • California
    • Subarctic America
      • Alaska
    • Western Canada
      • British Columbia
      • Manitoba
      • Saskatchewan

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Database ID/link to page
World Flora Online wfo-0000432379
UNII 6J80G69NO3
Canadensys 3840
USDA Plants SYAS
Tropicos 4000086
INPN 125341
Flora of Italy 4321
KEW urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:120743-1
The Plant List kew-2475962
Plantarium 37205
Missouri Botanical Garden 277976
Open Tree Of Life 243734
Observations.org 7530
NCBI Taxonomy 764736
NBN Atlas NHMSYS0000464109
Nature Serve 2.154964
IPNI 120743-1
iNaturalist 169496
GBIF 2926066
Freebase /m/02qtfxk
WisFlora 5182
EPPO SYMAS
EOL 582579
Elurikkus 7616
USDA GRIN 36019
Wikipedia Symphytum_asperum

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Recent Advances in Synthetic Drugs and Natural Actives Interacting with OAT3 Chen Y, Li H, Wang K, Wang Y Molecules 13-Jun-2023
PMCID:PMC10302796
doi:10.3390/molecules28124740
PMID:37375294
Antimicrobial Activity of Catechol-Containing Biopolymer Poly[3-(3,4-dihydroxyphenyl)glyceric Acid] from Different Medicinal Plants of Boraginaceae Family Barbakadze V, Merlani M, Gogilashvili L, Amiranashvili L, Petrou A, Geronikaki A, Ćirić A, Glamočlija J, Soković M Antibiotics (Basel) 01-Feb-2023
PMCID:PMC9952037
doi:10.3390/antibiotics12020285
PMID:36830198
Anti-inflammatory Properties of the Genus Symphytum L.: A Review Mahmoudzadeh E, Nazemiyeh H, Hamedeyazdan S Iran J Pharm Res 05-Apr-2022
PMCID:PMC9420230
doi:10.5812/ijpr.123949
PMID:36060906
Homogenisation of Biocultural Diversity: Plant Ethnomedicine and Its Diachronic Change in Setomaa and Võromaa, Estonia, in the Last Century Sõukand R, Kalle R, Pieroni A Biology (Basel) 26-Jan-2022
PMCID:PMC8869586
doi:10.3390/biology11020192
PMID:35205061
Enzymatic Synthesis and Antimicrobial Activity of Oligomer Analogues of Medicinal Biopolymers from Comfrey and Other Species of the Boraginaceae Family Merlani M, Scheibel DM, Barbakadze V, Gogilashvili L, Amiranashvili L, Geronikaki A, Catania V, Schillaci D, Gallo G, Gitsov I Pharmaceutics 04-Jan-2022
PMCID:PMC8779701
doi:10.3390/pharmaceutics14010115
PMID:35057011
C N/A Saunders Comprehensive Veterinary Dictionary 16-Oct-2020
PMCID:PMC9771676
doi:10.1016/B978-0-7020-7463-9.50011-2
Exchange of medicinal plant information in California missions McBride JR, Cavero RY, Cheshire AL, Calvo MI, McBride DL J Ethnobiol Ethnomed 15-Jun-2020
PMCID:PMC7296748
doi:10.1186/s13002-020-00388-y
PMID:32539795
Symphytum Species: A Comprehensive Review on Chemical Composition, Food Applications and Phytopharmacology Salehi B, Sharopov F, Boyunegmez Tumer T, Ozleyen A, Rodríguez-Pérez C, M. Ezzat S, Azzini E, Hosseinabadi T, Butnariu M, Sarac I, Bostan C, Acharya K, Sen S, Nur Kasapoglu K, Daşkaya-Dikmen C, Özçelik B, Baghalpour N, Sharifi-Rad J, Valere Tsouh Fokou P, C. Cho W, Martins N Molecules 18-Jun-2019
PMCID:PMC6631335
doi:10.3390/molecules24122272
PMID:31216776
A comprehensive dataset on cultivated and spontaneously growing vascular plants in urban gardens Frey D, Moretti M Data Brief 23-May-2019
PMCID:PMC6545399
doi:10.1016/j.dib.2019.103982
PMID:31194048
The changing face of farmers’ home gardens: a diachronic analysis from Sillian (Eastern Tyrol, Austria) Vogl-Lukasser B, Vogl CR J Ethnobiol Ethnomed 29-Oct-2018
PMCID:PMC6205796
doi:10.1186/s13002-018-0262-3
PMID:30373655
Pyrrolizidine Alkaloids: Chemistry, Pharmacology, Toxicology and Food Safety Moreira R, Pereira DM, Valentão P, Andrade PB Int J Mol Sci 05-Jun-2018
PMCID:PMC6032134
doi:10.3390/ijms19061668
PMID:29874826
Interactions of 172 plant extracts with human organic anion transporter 1 (SLC22A6) and 3 (SLC22A8): a study on herb-drug interactions Lu H, Lu Z, Li X, Li G, Qiao Y, Borris RP, Zhang Y PeerJ 25-May-2017
PMCID:PMC5446775
doi:10.7717/peerj.3333
PMID:28560096
Herbal Hepatotoxicity: Clinical Characteristics and Listing Compilation Frenzel C, Teschke R Int J Mol Sci 27-Apr-2016
PMCID:PMC4881436
doi:10.3390/ijms17050588
PMID:27128912
Herbal hepatotoxicity in traditional and modern medicine: actual key issues and new encouraging steps Teschke R, Eickhoff A Front Pharmacol 23-Apr-2015
PMCID:PMC4407580
doi:10.3389/fphar.2015.00072
PMID:25954198
Towards an ontogenetic understanding of inflorescence diversity Claßen-Bockhoff R, Bull-Hereñu K Ann Bot 27-Feb-2013
PMCID:PMC3828942
doi:10.1093/aob/mct009
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