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!




April 18, 2009

Chalk Milkwort


In general wild flowers of the same species are all the same color. Not here, this medley of white and blue in ameadow is Chalk Milkwort (Polygala calcarea) and it is a truly wild plant.






















The small flowers are well provided with adornments. The white frilly petal serves as a landing strip for butterflies and bees which have to put their proboscis between to blue wings to get nectar.