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!




April 22, 2015

Common Bugleweed


It is time to get out the lawn mower, but, well! The grass grows, but also lots of flowers. Common Bugleweed (Ajuga reptans) colonized the lawn. Every angular and rigid stalk carries tens of little blue flowers.




The blue is accentuated by dark bracts below every ring of flowers.




Seen from nearby it is really hairy! In every flower grow four stamina, a pair of long ones and a pair of short ones. Yellow anthers hover above the flowers. Irresistible for pollinating insects.