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!




January 21, 2015

Wild Parsnip


A bit of hoarfrost and everything changes.



Dead umbels of Wild Parsnip (Pastinaca sativa) with still some fruits. This perennial plant can grow a metre or more. The roots survive in the soil, the plant grows and flowers in summer, and leaves and stems die in autumn.




Early in autumn the green-yellow color of the plant is still visible.



Like many other Umbellifer flowers, the small yellow flowers of Wild Parsnip are visited by black-and-red striped pyama bugs.