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!




June 11, 2016

Many-seeded Slender Tare


This is a very tiny vetch, after flowering it is nearly invisible, unless you really look for it in a calcareous meadow. Many-seeded Slender Tare (Ervum gracile) has a rather long name for such a small plant. 





With some difficuly you can see it is infested by aphids. There were three or two flowers on every flower stalk but only one developed into a seed pod. In this species often the flowerstalk ends in a little point above the flowers or pods.


Two weeks ago it was still in full bloom, with slender curved tendrils.










Now the pods develop. They are a bit transparent and you can see there is a row of several seeds, yes, it is many-seeded for such a small vetch.




 
Dewdrups glisten in the morning sun on leaves, tendrils and seedpods.