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!




April 3, 2012

Spring Cinquefoil


In the same environment as the previous species grows the Spring Cinquefoil (Potentilla verna).


Here its tiny yellow flowers surround a small Western Spider Orchid (Ophrys occidentalis) that likes the same habitat.















  
Seen from nearby the flowers look, except for their color, like miniature Dog roses. No surprise, the Spring Cinquefoil is a member of the Rose family.