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!




January 9, 2016

Snowdrops


In this deciduous forest Snowdrops (Galanthus nivalis) are flowering since christmas.




Beautyful, but a bit too early...






The reddish twig is from a Yellow Dead-nettle (Lamium galeobdolon subsp. montanum), a perennial plant that often has some leaves even in winter. They turn red when it gets colder.