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!




December 22, 2014

Common Maidenhair Spleenwort


A typical Perigordin habitat for this small fern. The Common maidenhair Spleenwort (Asplenium trichomanes subsp. quadrivalens) has chosen as a place to live the ruins of a stone wall of an ancient farmhous, abandoned during rural depopulation in the former century.




It covers part of the wall with its drooping fronds.



Here it grows on an old treetrunk covered in mosses and ivy. The little fronds are glistening from rain.