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!




April 3, 2017

Pale Madwort


Those tiny yellow flowers grow in a rather arid limestone field.





Pale Madwort (Alyssum alyssoides) is an annual plant and it is one of the first to flower in this habitat. It lives in groups, sometimes there are hundreds of small plants dispersed over a few square meters.








When the flowers open you can see their four petals in the shape of a cross, typical for Brassicaceae.





You are lucky if you find it, it has become rare in Perigord.




The white flowers are not a different species, at the end of flowering the petals turn pale and stick to the developing fruit.