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!




March 23, 2014

Rue-leaved Saxifrage


On an old stone wall grows between the mosses a very small reddish plant. It is the Rue-leaved Saxifrage (Saxifraga tridactylitis).





It has a short life, in a few weeks it has grown from seed, now it flowers and soon the seeds will disperse and after that the plant will die.  There are many such tiny plants. In the picture below you see on the same wall between three Rue-leaved Saxifrages another species, the Common Whitlow-grass (Erophila verna).