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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 ...
The Uncompahgre fritillary butterfly (Boloria improba acrocnema) is a species of butterfly in the Order Lepidoptera: Family Nymphalidae that is endemic to Colorado, USA. [ 1 ] Discovered in the summer of 1978, the Uncompahgre fritillary was first described as a subspecies of Boloria improba , commonly known as the dingy fritillary [ 2 ] but ...
Fritillaria (fritillaries) is a genus of spring flowering herbaceous bulbous perennial plants in the lily family . The type species , Fritillaria meleagris , was first described in Europe in 1571, while other species from the Middle East and Asia were also introduced to Europe at that time.
The plant was first described by Christabel Beck under the name of Fritillaria assyriaca in 1953. [6] Plants were collected in Persia by Rear-Admiral Paul Furse in 1962, and brought into cultivation under that name. [7] In 1974, Martyn Rix at Kew proposed the new name of Fritillaria uva-vulpis for Fritillaria assyriaca sensu Beck. [3]
Fritillaria pudica, the yellow fritillary, is a small perennial plant [3] found in the sagebrush country in the western United States (Idaho, Montana, Oregon, Washington, Wyoming, very northern California, Nevada, northwestern Colorado, North Dakota and Utah) and Canada (Alberta and British Columbia). [4] [5] It is a member of the lily family ...
Fritillary may refer to: Fritillary (plant) , a genus of flowering plants in the family Liliaceae Fritillary (butterfly) , the name of various species in several different genera of nymphalid butterflies
Eggs are small and spherically shaped; the female gulf fritillary lays the eggs individually one by one on or near the host plant. Typical host plants include several species of the genus Passiflora. The eggs are initially yellow in color after deposition by the female, and they gradually turn a brownish red color over the course of the next 24 ...
Fritillaria pallidiflora is an Asian species of bulbous flowering plant in the lily family Liliaceae, native to Xinjiang, Kyrgyzstan and Kazakhstan. [2] [1] The common name frequently used is Siberian fritillary, a misnomer because the species does not grow in the wild in Siberia. The Latin specific epithet pallidiflora means "pale flowered". [3]