February 27, 2016

Isopyrum


See here Isopyrum (Isopyrum thalictroides) just beginning to flower. Like many other plants, this year it has an early start. You should think yourself lucky when you can take its picture, it is a very rare species in Dordogne. Well, it may be overlooked sometimes, so small and ephemeral it is.





Everything about this plant is delicate, its fragile stems, the finely ciselated leaves, and the flowers like a small Wood Anemone. It grows exclusively in humid and not too sunny spots under trees, with a predilection for the bank of a small stream, like here. In some weeks everything of this plant will have disappeared from sight and only its roots will lie dormant until next spring.