Nederlands: Wilde kievitsbloem
Español: Tablero de damas
Français: Fritillaire pintade - Oeuf de pintade - Gogane - Pintadine - Perrot
Deutsch: Schachblume
Family: Liliaceae - Lily family
Flowering time: April-May
Height: 20-50cm
Altitude: to 1200m
Colour: purple or pink with purple chequering, white
Habitat: damp water meadows, floodplains, open woodland
Distribution: native to the Netherlands, France and Germany
Note: The Snakeshead Lily is a garden plant and considered naturalized in Scandinavia and a number of central European countries. In the United Kingdom there is some disagreement amongst botanists as to whether Frittilaria meleagris is a native species or a long-established garden escapee.The Snakeshead Lily has become extinct in Belgium. In the Netherlands it is on the Red List, there are only a few growing places left. The banks of the river Vecht and Zwarte Water in the east of the country is the most important one and the second largest of Europe. The most important growing place of the Snakeshead Lily is to be found along the Loire in France.
Related key words: Rotterdam, Botanische tuin Kralingen, Heemtuin Vlaardingen, Heemtuin Rucphen, Nederlandse Rode Lijst, stinsenflora, naturalized cultivar, Stinzeplanzen, plantes castrales
