Common comfrey flowering

Window

Typical: 15 May – 31 Jul (2026)

Latitude range

50-52°N

Bell-shaped pink-purple flowers on tall stalks in damp riverside corners. Long flowering window.

Relevance to fishing

Damp soil / riverside indicator. Coincides with early damselfly emergence — same environmental driver (early summer warmth + damp soil), comfrey is the visible proxy.

Phenology chain

Triggers

• Damselfly emergence (mixed spp.) roughly concurrent (range -7 – 14d)