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!




June 21, 2014

Carrot Burr-Parsley


A cultivated field on poor and stony soil. There are not much cereals, but wild flowers are abundant.


The farmer did not use much fertilizer and weedkiller and that's why here grow plants that have disappeared elsewhere.Like the Carrot Burr-Parsley (Caucalis platycarpos), that flowers and produces fruit before harvest and the arrival of hot and dry summer months.





Here, in the last rays of the evening sun, some umbels with fruits covered with small hooks.