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!




May 9, 2009

Unfurling


In most vascular plants the young leaves are folded or they form a cylinder that unrolls. Ferns are different, their fronds are uncurling spirals. Now is the time to look for them. The following two should be easy to find.


The Tongue Fern (Asplenium scolopendrium) grows on steep and stony slopes in the shadow of trees.
















And the Common Bracken (Pteridium aquilinum) covers the forest floor under oaks and chestnuts.