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!




March 19, 2010

Common Whitlow-Grass


This miniature plant, the Common Whitlow-Grass (Erophila verna) is not a grass but a member of the Brassicaceae, or Crucifer-family. Mustard and Cuckoo-flowers, other crucifers, are giants compared to it. It is even smaller than a normal-sized pine-cone, as you see in the picture below.



Even if it is easy to overlook, the Common Whitlow-Grass is not difficult to find. Just put your nose to the ground in a dry place at a roadside, or in the center of a sandy path, and more often than not there are thousands of it.