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!




May 3, 2020

Common Dogwood


At this moment it is in flower and the rain that fell so much those first days of May does not matter.



Common Dogwood (Cornus sanguinea) is a bush you can find in many places. It can grow nearly everywhere on limestone soil, and often also elsewhere.




It makes beautiful bunches of white flowers, every flower with four petals, four stamens and a style.




At the end of summer it makes black berries.



Sometimes it covers with its branches and leaves that easily turn red piles of stones, old walls and forgotten corners in abandoned grounds.





Its leaves show typical curved, deep lying veins, they are easy to recognize.