It is a beautiful plant, Annual Ragweed ( Ambrosia artemisiifolia ). It comes from the Americas and it feels at home in France. A bit too...

In this arable field  grew about 130 different species of spontaneous plants. Mostly those 'weeds' were messicoles , plants with a l...

It is not exceptional at all when a plant adapts itself to a life near us, humans. Agriculture created possibilities for many wildflowers. T...

After a year and a half, here again plants portraits from Perigord in this blog.   Ferns are spore plants. In their life cycle very small pl...

Many plants make rosettes at ground level in autumn. They take some risks, because the leaves should not freeze. Bulbous Buttercup ( Ranuncu...

This big tree has green leaves even in winter. Sometimes it forms real forests, mainly on dry limestone hills, but not only there, in Perigo...

The blue fruits, sloes, are edible but only after the first frost, otjerwise they are to acid and astringent. They grow on a small very thor...