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!




September 14, 2009

Common Blue


In a warm autumn this butterfly flies until november. At sunrise thousands of Common Blues (Polyommatus icarus) sit waiting for the first rays of sunlight to come to life after a cold night.


When it is asleep you cannot see where its name comes from: the bright blue of the upper side of the wings.
















Oops! Bad luck! A crab spider!