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!




September 24, 2013

Hawkweed Oxtongue


Some spider webs, a row of yellow flowers.


An abandoned field colored yellow and white as you can find nearly everywhere. Two very common plant species flowering from the end of summer until the first frost, and even after. Between the white umbels of Wild Carrots (Daucus carota) you see the yellow flower heads of Hawkweed Oxtongue (Picris hieracioides).










No, it is not a Hawkweed, (a plant of the same family with also yellow flowers) nor an Oxtongue (a succulent greenhouse plant). The yellow flowers are of the same type as a dandelion, composed of some tens of ligulate flowers.













Like dandelions the ripe fruits carry little fluffy parasols that fly in the winds.