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!




February 3, 2015

Early Sandgrass


A very tiny annual grass is already in flower. It is Early Sandgrass (Mibora minima).




Those first flowering stalks are only a few centimetres high. To compensate they are with many, thousands of small Early Sandgrasses grow in this fallow corn field. At once a green veil covers the grey earth.



In a few weeks we'll find here giant plants of fifteen centimetres. Many white anthers emerge from wine-red spikelets. After flowering the field turns red because of those spikelets. And soon it will be all over, the Early sandgrass dies before summer begins.