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Elaphe moellendorffi, commonly called the flower snake or Moellendorf's [sic] rat snake, is a species of snake in the family Colubridae. The species is endemic to southeastern Asia.
Plant in a shady area with well draining soil. Encourage a fall re-bloom by removing spent flowers. Remove dead foliage as needed.
These characteristics apply to the greater Sacramento area and nearby regions.
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Plant in a shady area with well draining soil. Encourage a fall re-bloom by removing spent flowers. Remove dead foliage as needed.
These characteristics apply to the North Texas area and nearby regions.
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Fritillaria meleagris is a Eurasian species of flowering plant in the lily family Liliaceae.[2][3][4] Its common names include snake's head fritillary, snake's head (the original English name), chess flower, frog-cup, guinea-hen flower, guinea flower, leper lily (because its shape resembled the bell once carried by lepers), Lazarus bell, chequered lily, chequered daffodil, drooping tulip or, in the British Isles, simply fritillary.[5] The plant is a bulbous perennial[6] native to the flood river plains of Europe where it grows in abundance.[7]
The Latin specific epithet meleagris means "spotted like a guineafowl".[8] The common name "snake's head" probably refers to the somewhat snakelike appearance of the nodding flower heads, especially when in bud, on their long stems.
Fritillaria meleagris is native to Europe and western Asia but in many places it is an endangered species that is rarely found in the wild but is commonly grown in gardens. In Croatia, the flower is known as kockavica and is associated by some with the country's national symbol.[9] It is the official flower of the Swedish province of Uppland, where it grows in large quantities every spring in the meadows of Kungsängen (King's Meadow), just outside Uppsala, which gives the flower its Swedish name, kungsängslilja ("king's meadow lily"). It is also found for example in Sandemar Nature Reserve, a nature reserve west of Dalarö in Stockholm Archipelago.
The plant was once abundant in the UK, particularly in the Thames Valley and parts of Wiltshire, and was collected in vast quantities to be sold as a cut flower in the markets of London, Oxford and Birmingham. During World War II most of the ancient meadows were ploughed up and turned over to the production of food crops, destroying much of the plant's habitat.[10] A popular garden plant, it is now rare in the wild, although there are some notable sites where it is still found, such as the meadows at Magdalen College, Iffley Meadows,[12] Oxford and the Oxfordshire village of Ducklington,[10] which holds a "Fritillary Sunday" festival.[13] It is also found in the North Meadow National Nature Reserve, Wiltshire, Clattinger Farm Nature Reserve, Wiltshire,[14] on Portholme in Cambridgeshire[15] and Fox Fritillary Meadow and Mickfield Meadow nature reserves in Suffolk.[16][17][18] In 2002 it was chosen as the County flower of Oxfordshire following a poll by the wild flora conservation charity Plantlife.[19]
Now easily available as an ornamental spring bulb for the garden, it is commonly sold as a mixture of different coloured cultivars. The species[20] and the pure white-flowered variety F. meleagris var. unicolor subvar. alba[21] have gained the Royal Horticultural Society's Award of Garden Merit.[22]
Fritillaria meleagris is used for landscaping, gardening and horticulture in a variety of planting situations such as in: borders, containers, cottage and informal gardens, woodland gardens, wildflower meadows, rock gardens or naturalized areas.[24][23][25]
This is perhaps the oddest of the little flower bed snakes. A worm snake has smooth, shiny scales, reduced eyes, and a small pointed head that allows it to burrow rapidly through loose soil hunting for earthworms. They are really very pretty little animals, with glossy scales, dark chocolate brown back, and pinkish belly, brighter in some specimens than others. Worm snakes are hardly larger than a big earthworm, and unsuspecting gardeners might actually mistake one for a worm. In fact, they can burrow and disappear so rapidly that unless you are paying attention, you could dig them up all day and not notice them. To catch one, I usually grab a handful of the soil or mulch that the snake has disappeared into, and then sift it between my fingers to see if I was successful.
Smooth earth snakes are about the same size as worm snakes and have very similar habits, but they not appear to be as specialized for burrowing. Their eyes are larger than those of worm snakes, and they look more like typical little snakes. Their glossy bodies can be either dark gray or pale gray with dark spots.
Brown snakes lurk in loose mulch but do not seem to burrow in soil. Like worm snakes and earth snakes, they are inoffensive and never attempt to bite. One year, the kids and I kept a brown snake for several weeks and fed it slugs, which it consumed enthusiastically. Clearly, this is a useful snake to have around the garden.
Depending on where in the piedmont you live, you may also find several other small snakes in your flower beds. Rough earth snakes (Virginia striatula) are reported to be common in some vacant lots in Durham and Raleigh, and I have seen a southeastern crowned snake (Tantilla coronata) that was caught in a Durham city park. If your garden is adjacent to a creek or moist woodland, you may find a redbelly snake (Storeria occipitomaculata), which resembles a brown snake with a bright orange belly, or perhaps a ringneck snake (Diadophis punctatus), surely one of the prettiest North Carolina snakes. Keep your eyes open.
Thanks, John. I hope to have part 2 posted in a couple of days. We also have a legless lizard in North Carolina, the glass lizard (Ophisaurus ventralis), but they live on the coastal plain, not in my part of the state. Our local grass snake equivalent, the eastern garter snake (Thamnophis sirtalis) does visit the garden, but they prefer a nearby stream where they can catch frogs and salamanders.
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