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!




April 15, 2015

Green-Winged Orchid


A very common orchid in Perigord. You can find the Green-Winged Orchid (Anacamptis morio) in meadows, lawns, on roadsides... And no, it has no green wings, maybe some small greenish stripes on its sepals.

Every year you are happy to see it again. Here in the last rays of an April sun in a dry limestone field.