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 22, 2014
Greater Butterfly Orchid
If you want to see this beautiful orchid in flower, you'll have to hurry. The flowering period of the Greater Butterfly Orchid (Platanthera chlorantha) is nearly over.
Here is one, maybe the last of this year, hidden between grasses.
