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!




July 11, 2013

Viper's Bugloss


A field full of colours. The blue flowers on long stalks forming large groups are Viper's Bugloss (Echium vulgare). A 'weed' that grows nearly everywhere, in abandoned fields, roadsides, amidst garden  and other garbage, even in vegetable gardens. If the sunny weather continues and turns into a period of drought, the Viper's bugloss does not die but will go on flowering. You can pick them and put them in a vase; they keep well.






















Like many other plants from the Borinagaceae family, leaves and stem, in fact all green parts of the Viper's bugloss, are covered with rough reddish hairs.