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!




February 29, 2020

Barren Strawberry


In not too dry forests, at the bottom of a valley or on a shaded slope under the trees, you can find those little white flowers very early in the year among the Yvy leaves.




They look like wild  strawberry flowers but they bear no fruit, as indicates their name: Barren Strawberry (Potentilla sterilis).




Also the leaves look like strawberry leaves. Maybe a bit smaller and with some silken hairs.





Even if you don't make strawberries, isn't it enough to have nice flowers?