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!




May 2, 2017

Yellow Dead-nettle


This picture is taken at the end of winter. Yes, Snowdrops were still in flower. And there were also some rather elegant reddish leaves.




What did become of them?


See here.





Now they brighten up this somewhat sombre woodland. The Yellow Dead-nettle (Lamium galeobdolon subs. montanum) made a lot of new green sprouts and now it is in full bloom. It likes a soil rich in humus, like here under the Hornbeams of a little wooded valley, not far from a stream. If it finds the right circumstances it is a good ground-cover plant, its creeping stalks can cover quite a surface.







The verticillate flowers are yellow, the upper lip clear yellow and the lower lip spotted with darker yellow.