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!




March 29, 2016

Cuckoo Flower


The Cuckoo Flower (Cardamine pratensis) appears just a bit earlier than the cuckoo and it grows under trees or along a walking track, in a grassy not too dry spot where it can get some sunshine. Here it brightens up a little wood near a small stream.






It belongs to the Brassicaceae family, like kale, rape and also most of the little white flowers you find now everywhere in flower (see Little white jobs). The four petals are slightly veined. 





You have to hurry to see it in flower, its season is short !