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 21, 2016

Spotted Rockrose


Some cyclopic objects look at us.






They are petals fallen from a Spotted Rockrose (Tuberaria guttata).

It is a transient flowering. You can look for Spotted Rockrose and not find it, and yet a week later it is there in multitude.





Its favorite habitat is sandy and subnny and not on limestone soil. Here, in a poor meadow after haymaking it grows abundantly.