Yellow Goat's Beard

Only on sunny mornings the flowers of Yellow Goat's Beard (Tragopogon pratensis) do open.


Here is one with some visitors.



















Like other members of the family of Asteraceae, the Yellow Goat's Beard produces seeds with a fluffy umbrella to be carried away on the wind. The flowerheads have changed now into fuzzy tennis balls.














They are so large you can distinguish the small features of each umbrella. It has a seed for a handle, and the ribs are woven together with thin, spiderweb-like tissue.

Pyramidal Orchid

The Pyramidal Orchid (Anacamptis pyramidalis) is a species common to be found in Perigord. When they start flowering in may the flower heads are triangular in shape, but now, in June, they grow longer and longer.


They grow on roadsides and in hay meadows, and when you mow the grass the cut stalks give a sweet fragrance to the mown grass.