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 27, 2016

Isopyrum


See here Isopyrum (Isopyrum thalictroides) just beginning to flower. Like many other plants, this year it has an early start. You should think yourself lucky when you can take its picture, it is a very rare species in Dordogne. Well, it may be overlooked sometimes, so small and ephemeral it is.





Everything about this plant is delicate, its fragile stems, the finely ciselated leaves, and the flowers like a small Wood Anemone. It grows exclusively in humid and not too sunny spots under trees, with a predilection for the bank of a small stream, like here. In some weeks everything of this plant will have disappeared from sight and only its roots will lie dormant until next spring.