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 28, 2018

Common Dog Violet



The blue Violets that flower in April are very much alike. See here the Common Dog Violet (Viola riviniana).





It look rather rectangular. It has to be admitted, violets do show a temperament.






This one grows in woods on neutre or slightly acidic soils in little rather loose bunches. If there is a leaf rosette of a kind, it is not at ground level but halfway up a stalk.





Common Dog Violet has a big white spur and pointed sepals...






... and a striped lower lip.





Here it grows between leaves of a Sweet Chestnut that, like the Violet, does not like calcareous soils.