The flora of PĂ©rigord 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 24, 2013

Creeping Germander


A long summer without any rain gives dry meadows and open spaces a burned look. There are virtually no green leaves. The Creeping Germander (Teucrium chamaedrys) is used to this. By preference it grows in a sunny spot on porous calcareous soil that does not retain much rain water. It has already finished flowering and the brown calices are still on the plant.


But some pink flowers can still be found. The flower has no upper lip, so the stamina are pointing upwards in the open.
















The tiny leaves look like rather stylized miniature oak-leaves.