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!




May 24, 2014

Nottingham Catchfly


In a grassy spot on a woody roadside those elegant little flowers grow. They are Nottingham Catchfly (Silene nutans). Here they are pink.




Normally they are white, but quite often you find pink, or even wine-red flowers, as you see here below. A mixture of tender colours on slender stalks.


 


In daytime the flowers look wilted. That is because Nottingham Catchfly flowers at night, in the morning the petals fold back and curl.






The sun rises, we are going to sleep...