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!




January 31, 2013

Red Deadnettle


In flower in January: the Red Deadnettle (Lamium purpureum). It is a little annual plant that grows in vegetable gardens and in corn fields out of crop.


And also elsewhere, in a stack of wood.


















Or next to a pile of rocks.


















All plants of the Lamiaceae family have foursquare stems, opposite leaves and flowers with a speckled lower lip.

January 4, 2013

Cowslip


Among fallen Hornbeam (Carpinus betulus) leaves...




















...in six weeks the Cowslip (Primula veris) will flower!




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