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!




March 7, 2014

Grey Willow

In March this bush is visible from far away. Before the leaves develop, the Grey Willow (Salix atrocinerea) covers itself in yellow catkins. Like most other Willows it needs water all the year round to flourish, so you will find it near a small stream, in a marshy forest or in a bog.


Here are the male catkins.