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 14, 2016

Hairy Bittercress



Hairy Bittercress (Cardamine hirsuta) likes human intervention. It prefers places where the soil is tilled or worked, as a vegetable garden or a corn field after harvest. Its leaves are not bitter but slightly spicy, like Watercress (which, by the way, belongs to the same botanical family of Brassicaceae). When in winter the weather is soft during a week or more, it immediately starts growing leaves and flowers.







So this winter it flowers and grows all the time since November.







The little plants even got the occasion to grow bigger and to make fruits. The fruit is a siliqua much longer than the flowers.