Garrigue

This article is about the Mediterranean scrubland. For other uses, see Garrigues (disambiguation).
Garrigue in France.

Garrigue or garigue (/ɡəˈriːɡ/ gə-REEG), also known as phrygana (Greek: φρύγανα [ˈfriɣana], n. pl.),[1] is a type of low scrubland ecoregion and plant community in the Mediterranean forests, woodlands, and scrub biome.

It is found on limestone soils in southern France and around the Mediterranean Basin, generally near the seacoast where the moderated Mediterranean climate provides annual summer drought. It is an anthropogenic degradation and succession form of former evergreen oak forests that existed until around 2500 years BCE.[2][3][4]

The term has also found its way into haute cuisine, suggestive of the resinous flavours of a garrigue shrubland.[5]

  1. ^ "Conspectus florae graecae". 1901.
  2. ^ "Garrigues en pays languedocien" (in French). Ecologistes de l'Euzière. 2007. Archived from the original on 2013-11-02. Retrieved 9 March 2010.
  3. ^ Shield, Peter. "History of the Garrigue". Southern Times. Retrieved 9 March 2010.
  4. ^ Garrigue, une histoire qui ne manque pas de piquant, Ecolodoc no. 7 - Éditions Écologistes de l’Euzière, avril 2007 ISBN 978-2-906128-20-0
  5. ^ Bienvenue sur le site officiel de l'office de tourisme de la région de Sault Archived 2006-10-21 at the Wayback Machine