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!




May 24, 2015

Snake Tongue Orchid


This flesh-coloured orchid grows in a poor meadow.



The Snake Tongue Orchid (Serapias vomeracea) has chlorophyll but its green colour is nearly invisible, there are many red pigments, in the flower as well as in other parts of the plant. The lip, of the same colour, is very hairy, this seems attractive to insects.