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!




August 15, 2017

Nettle-leaved Bellflower


A big, rather untidy plant grows in the brambles and bushes on the side of a path. It has a lot of blue flowers.










Nettle-leaved bellflower (Campanula trachelium) produces all summer, and even after it, blue or lilac bell-shaped flowers on long sturdy stalks. It does not like full sunshine so you will find it mostly in the shadow of trees, sometimes together with the Clustered bellflower that now already has stopped flowering.







The flowers are hairy, even inside!





The triangular leaves (yes, like nettle leaves) are also hairy. Here those of a small plant just before it started flowering.