Cultivation
Now easily available as an ornamental spring bulb for the garden, it is commonly sold as a mixture of different coloured cultivars. The pure white-flowered variety F. meleagris var. unicolor subvar. alba has gained the Royal Horticultural Society's Award of Garden Merit.
Like many plants in the lily family, F. meleagris is susceptible to the scarlet lily beetle, which can seriously damage or kill it.
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Snake's Head Lily
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Close up of the Snakeshead Fritillary (Taken at Magdalen College, Oxford)
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Snakeshead Fritillary (Taken at Audubon's marsh — West France)
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Snakes Head Fritillary Photographed in Sandemar strandängar.
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