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!




Index English names


Amethyst Broomrape (1)Amethyst Broomrape (2)
American Box-Elder
Annual Pea
Ash-leaved Maple
Autumn Squill (1), Autumn Squill (2)
Banded Demoiselle
Barren Strawberry
Bastard Toadflax
Bee Orchid
Beech
Beggar's Ticks
'Beggar's Ticks Dodder'
Bird's Foot Trefoil
Bird's Nest Orchid
Birdeye Speedwell (1) ,Birdeye Speedwell (2)
Black Medick
Black Bryony

Black Spleenwort 
Blackberry (1), Blackberry (2) 

Blackthorn (1), Blackthorn (2)
Blue Field Madder
Blue Fleabane
Blue Lettuce
Boston Ivy
Brazilian Waterweed
Brilliant Cinquefoil
Broadleaf Helleborine
Bull Thistle (1), Bull Thistle (2)
Burnet saxifrage (1), Burnet Saxifrage (2)
Burnt Orchid
Burr Cucumber
Butcher's Broom
Carline Thistle (1), Carline Thistle (2)
Carrot Burr-Parsley (1), Carrot Burr-parsley (2)
Chalk Milkwort
Cherry Plum
Clustered Bellflower 
Common Alder
Common Andryala
Common Ball-flower
Common Blue
Common Bracken (1), Common Bracken (2)
Common Bugleweed
Common Chicory

Common Cudweed 
Common Cowslip
Common Crane
Common Dog Violet
Common Dogwood (1), Common Dogwood (2)
Common Gorse
Common Grape Hyacinth
Common Groundsel

Common Heliotrope 
Common Juniper (1), Common Juniper (2)
Common Maidenhair Spleenwort (1), Maidenhair Spleenwort (2)
Common Michaelmas Daisy
Common Polypody
Common Primrose (1), Common Primrose (2)
Common Tamarisk-Moss
Common Twayblade
Common Vetch
Common Whitlow-Grass (1), Common Whitlow-Grass (2), Common Whitlow-grass (3)
'Controversial Sandwort' (1), 'Controversial Sandwort' (2)
Corn Rocket
Corn Salad
Cowslip
Creeping Germander (1), Creeping Germander (2)
Creeping Thistle
Cuckoo Flower
Curly Waterweed
Curry Plant
Cut-leaved Dead-nettle
Cut-leaved Germander
Cutleaf Selfheal
Cypress Spurge
Dandelion
Dark Bee Orchid
'Dark-leaved Violet'
Daisy Fleabane

Devil's Bit Scabious 
Dog Lichen
Dog Rose 
Dog's Mercury
Dutchman's Pipe
Dwarf Elder
Dwarf Spurge
Early Forget-me-not (1), Early Forget-me-not (2)
Early Sandgrass
Early Spider Orchid
English Ivy (1), English Ivy (2)English Ivy (3)
European Black Pine
Fairy Flax
False Virginia-Creeper
Fern-grass

Field Elm (1)    Field Elm (2)
Field Eryngo (1), Field Eryngo (2)
Field Maple (1), Field Maple (2)
Field Marigold
Field Pepperwort
Field Poppy
Field Woodrush
Fire Bug
Floating Primrose-willow
Fly Honeysuckle
Fly Orchid (1), Fly Orchid (2)Fly Orchid (3)
French Bartsia
Fritillary
'Glaucous Hawkweed'
Grape-Vine
Grass Pea
Greater Burdock
Greater Butterfly Orchid
Greater Knapweed
Greater Stitchwort
Greater Venus's Mirror
Great Hedge Bedstraw
Great Mullein
Green Hellebore
Great Willow-herb
Green-Winged Orchid (1)Green-Winged Orchid (2), Green-Winged orchid 
Grey Knight
Grey Mouse-ear
Grey Willow
Guelder Rose
Gypsyflower
Hairy Bitter-Cress (1), Hairy Bitter-Cress (2)
Hairy Tare
Hairy Violet (1), Hairy Violet (2)
Harebell
Hart's Tongue Fern (1)Hart's Tongue Fern (2)
Hawkweed Oxtongue (1), Hawkweed Oxtongue (2)
Hazel
Hemp agrimony
Herb Robert
'Holy Hawksbeard'
Holly

Holm Oak 
Hop Trefoil
Hornbeam (1), Hornbeam (2)Hornbeam (3), Hornbeam (4)
Horseshoe vetch (1)Horseshoe Vetch (2)
Hutchinsia
Hybrid Polypody
Intermediate Polypody
Isopyrum
Italian Arum
Ivy-leaved Speedwell
Ivy-leaved Toadflax
Japanese Knotweed
Jenny's Stonecrop
Killer Bug
King Cup
Knotted Clover
Lamarck's Bedstraw
Large Yellow Restharrow
Lawn Daisy

Least Pepperwort 

Lesser Calamint 
Lesser Duckweed
Lesser Scullcap
Limestone Fern
Maidenhair Fern
Male orchid (1), Male Orchid (2)
Many-seeded Slender Tare
Maritime Pine (1), Maritime Pine (2)
Marsh Scullcap
Marsh Fern
Marsh Thistle
Meadow Clary
Meadow Fritillary
Mediterranean Buckthorn
Mirror Orchid
Montpellier Maple (1), Montpellier Maple (2)
Mountain Germander
'Mountain Needle Sunrose'

Musk Thistle
Narrow-leaved Lungwort
Narrowleaf Crimson Clover
Narrowleaf Hemp-nettle 
Norway maple
Nottingham Catchfly
Nursery Web Spider
Oneseed Hawthorn
Oregano
Oxeye Daisy
Pale Madwort

Pale Swallow-wort 
Perennial Pea
Perennial Sow-thistle
Perfoliate Penny-Cress
Perforate Saint-John's-wort
Plymouth Thistle
Prickly Sow-thistle
Prostrate Toadflax 
Purple Dragon
Pyramidal Orchid (1), Pyramidal Orchid (2)Pyramidal Orchid (3)
Pubescent Oak (1), Pubescent Oak (2)
Purple Orchid
Purple Toothwort (2)
Pyrenean oak
Quaking Grass (1), Quaking Grass (2)
Red Deadnettle
Red Soldier beetle
River Water-Crowfoot
Rose Chafer
Rough Marsh Mallow (1)
Rough Marsh Mallow (2)

Round-headed Rampion 
Round-leaved Fluellen
Rue-leaved Saxifrage
Rustyback
Scorpion Vetch
Scots Pine
Sessile Oak
Siberian Spurge
Sickle Leaf Spurge
Single Yellow-head
Slender Bedstraw
Slender Broomrape
Small Broomrape
Small Scabious
Small Spider Orchid
Snake Tongue Orchid
Snowdrop (1), Snowdrop (2)Snowdrop (3), Snowdrop (4)   

Soapwort
Soft Shieldfern
Spindle Bush
Spiral Orchid (1), Spiral Orchid (2)
Spotted Rockrose
Spotted Sandmat
Spring Cinquefoil
Square-stalked Saint-John's-wort
Squinancywort
St Bernard Lily
Stemless Thistle
Stiff Eyebright
Stiff Hedgenettle
Stinging Nettle
Stinking Hellebore
Sun Spurge
Sweet Chestnut (1)Sweet Chestnut (2)
Sweet Violet (1), Sweet Violet (2)
Tassel Hyacinth

Thornapple 
Tomato
Tor Grass (1), Tor Grass (2)
Traveler's Joy
Tree Lungwort
True Oxlip
True Service Tree
'Truncate Selfheal'
Tuberous Comfrey
Two-leaf Squill (1), Two-leaf Squill (2)
Upright Brome
Violet Limodore
Viper's Bugloss
Virginia-Creeper
Water Finger-grass
Water Chickweed
Water Germander
Water Mint
Western Spider Orchid
White Lace Flower(1)White Lace Flower (2)
White Rock-rose 
White Violet
Wild Carrot (1), Wild Carrot (2)
Wild Madder
Wild Parsnip (1), Wild Parsnip (2)
Witches Butter
Wall Speedwell
Wall Whitlow-Grass

Wayfaring Tree 
'Western Spider Orchid' (1), 'Western Spider Orchid'
Wild Angelica (1)Wild Angelica (2)

Wild Basil 
Wild Service Tree
Wood Anemone
Wood Spurge
Woodland Calamint
Woolly Distaff-thistle
Woolly Thistle
Yellow Anemone
Yellow Bartsia
Yellow Bee Orchid
Yellow Dead-nettle
Yellow Goat's Beard
Yellow Iris
Yellow Oat-Grass
Yellow-headed Spurge
Yellow Vetch
Yellow-wort