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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 ...
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.
This is a list of species of butterfly with the common name fritillary.The term fritillary refers to the chequered markings on the wings, usually black on orange, and derives from the Latin fritillus, meaning "dice-box" (or, according to some sources, a "chequerboard"); the fritillary flower, with its chequered markings, has the same derivation. [1]
Fritillaria meleagris L. Type species - snake's head fritillary, checkered daffodil, frog-cup, Guinea-hen flower, leper lily, - Eurasia from Britain to Altay Krai; Fritillaria meleagroides Patrin ex Schult.f. - Eurasia from Bulgaria to Xinjiang [4] Fritillaria messanensis Raf. - Greece, Italy, Balkans; Fritillaria michailovskyi Fomin - Turkey [5]
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Euptoieta claudia, the variegated fritillary, is a North and South American butterfly in the family Nymphalidae.Even though the variegated fritillary has some very different characteristics from the Speyeria fritillaries, it is still closely related to them.
Common names include Pyrenean fritillary [3] and Pyrenean snake's-head. [4] It is a bulbous perennial growing to 45 cm (18 in). The pendent, bell-shaped flowers are borne in spring. They have recurved tepals [5] which are purple tinged with brown and yellow. [2] Like other species in this genus, notably F. meleagris, they are strongly chequered ...
It has a subdorsal row of white spots ringed with black, a spiracular silver line with black edges, and six rows of black spines. The red head has two long black spines with clubbed ends. The chrysalis is dark brown or rarely tan, with gold eyes and short gold lateral and subdorsal cones. On the wing cases, it has a black marking shaped like a "T".