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!




June 9, 2010

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.