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!




March 11, 2017

Lawn Daisy


Everywhere on lawns and also elsewhere, Lawn Daisy (Bellis perennis).






Little radiant suns, a circle of pink-tipped ligulate flowers around a golden heart of tubular flowers.





A stem with a single flowerhead with typical hairs on the bracts.




And this stem comes out of a small basal cluster of leaves flat on the soil. Hoarfrost? No problem at all!





A bit of cold does not matter. The flower simply closes.






Here the flower in the rays of an end of the afternoon sun, beginning to close for the night.