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!




July 27, 2014

White Lace Flower


Early morning in summer, a light fog.


Times ago local farmers grew tobacco in this field, but it has been abandoned for many years. Since then some woody plants had time enough to grow big, like those Junipers  (Juniperus communis). Between the Junipers wild flowers found a good spot and they flower in abundance. Unusual amounts of them grow here, purple Creeping Germander (Teucrium chamaedrys), yellow Jenny's Sronecrop (Sedum rupestre) and White Lace Flower (Orlaya grandiflora).








For the White Lace Flower 2014 has been a very good year. Now the flowering season is nearly over and little fruits covered with little hooks can be found in every spot where a month ago the plants were in full bloom.




Here and there a single umbel in flower can still be seen.