Symphytum ×uplandicum

Spreading to erect, to 1 m high; stems narrowly winged by decurrent leaf-bases or not. Leaves scabrous above with short prickly tuberculate-based deciduous hairs and curved or uncinate hairs, or with appressed tubercule-based stiff non-deciduous hairs above, with occasional tubercle-based stiff hairs along veins below, apex acuminate, margins entire, flat; rosette leaves elliptic-lanceolate, 15–30 cm long, to 6 cm wide, petiole to 12 cm long; cauline leaves smaller, lanceolate to ovate, uppermost nearly sessile with cuneate base, bases slightly decurrent or not. Flowers on pedicels to 10 mm long; sepals triangular-lanceolate, to 12 mm long, obtuse, connate in basal two fifths; corolla 10–16 mm long, glabrous, pink or purple in bud, pink, pinkish-blue or blue in flower, lobes small, tips recurved, throat scales triangular-lanceolate, longer than stamens; anthers c. 2.5 mm long. Mericarps 3–4 mm long, dull, brown. Flowers Nov.–Feb.