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!




July 12, 2013

Rough Marsh-Mallow


No, this small Mallow does not grow in marshes. The Rough Marsh-Mallow (Althaea hirsuta) prefers dry meadows on poor soil. It is small and unconspicuous compared to the larger flowers that surround it.


All mallows have below the pink petals a calyx that sits on a kind of deep dish with star-shaped points. The Rough Marsh-mallow has straight hairs on its stem.

Difficult to believe that this tiny plant belongs to the same family as the lime tree. But the red and black firebugs know, they prefer to feed on all kinds of Malvaceae.