The flora of Périgord 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 15, 2018

Amethyst Broomrape


The same meadow in full bloom, the background of the picture of the post below. Between yellow Horseshoe Vetch flower a new Broomrape has emerged besides a new leaf of its host.






Amethyst Broomrape (Orobanche amethystea) parasitises Field Eryngo (Eryngium campestre).