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!




August 23, 2011

Small scabious


Thousands of lilac flowers on thin stems about forty centimeter high move in the wind. At the end of summer the Small scabious (Scabiosa columbaria) flowers in meadows and at roadsides.























After flowering each flowerhead changes into a tiny hedgehog. Each seed has five black thorns and a papery collar.



August 20, 2011

Herb robert


Robert Herb (Geranium robertianum) has small pink flowers you can find from early spring to late autumn in shadowy places along footpaths, among stones and in woods.























Its leaves are as long as wide and have a typical not completely nice smell if you rub them between your fingers. Often they are tinged with red.















The fruits have the form of a stork's bill. When the seeds are ripening, the bill dries out and releases the seeds hidden at its base.