The flora of Périgord in South-West France is abundant and diverse. In this blog you can find, in pictures, brief encounters with several hundreds of wild flowers and plants as they grow here in French Perigord. Following the seasons other species are added. An index of scientific and English names you find below on the right.

Corine Oosterlee is a botanist and photographer and she offers guided Botanical Walks and other activities around plants and vegetation in nature in Perigord. Do you want to know more? On www.baladebotanique.fr you can find more information. For Corine's photography see www.corineoosterlee.com. Both websites also in English.

Enjoy!




January 4, 2009

Tor Grass


In the calcareous meadows where you can find lots of orchids you can also find a lot of Tor Grass (Brachypodium rupestre). It grows in large clumps and you can recognize it because it is coarser than the other grasses that surround it. In winter it is pale yellow, not as grey as other grasses.



Today an icing of frost enhances its beauty.


















Last summer its clear, light green stood out.