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!




March 29, 2015

King Cup


Hello, it's me!




I am the King Cup (Caltha palustris).

Because spring came back, I also came back.





The King Cup likes to have wet feet. In swampy places on fertile soil it can appear in large amounts. Like here in an Alder wood where the branches of a small stream penetrate everywhere. The flowering is abundant while it lasts, only a few weeks.





Yes, it looks like a big buttercup. Both belong to the same family of Ranunculaceae.