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!




June 17, 2017

Cutleaf Selfheal


At this moment the little Cutleaf Selfheal (Prunella laciniata) is in full bloom in limestone meadows. It loves the sun, so it is very happy those days!





It is a Lamiaceae, with a square stalk and opposite leaves, in fact the whole plant has something square and symmetric. There are other selfheals, but those mostly have blue flowers (like as an exemple 'Truncate Selfheal').





In the pictures it is surrounded by other flowers of this habitat. Above by Slender Bedstraw (Galium pumilum), and below by Horseshoe Clover (Hippocrepis comosa).