| Scientific Name: | Fritillaria meleagris |
| Common Name: | checkered lily, Guinea hen flower, snake's head fritillary |
| Family Name: | Liliaceae |
| Origin: | Central / west Asia, Europe |
| Hardiness Zone: | Zone 4: (-34 to -29 °C) |
| Plant Type: | Herbaceous perennial |
| Mature Size: | 0.2 - 0.4m x < 0.1m (height x width) |
| Habit: | Upright |
| Form: | Weeping |
| Texture: | Medium - fine |
| Landscape Uses: | Perennial border, Rock garden, Spring interest |
| Exposure: | Part sun/part shade |
| Soil or Media: | Well-drained |
| Leaves: | Simple, Grass-like, Alternate, Soft flexible, Parallel venation, Glabrous, Lanceolate, Linear, Entire |
| Flowers: | Flowers solitary, White, Purple, Dark-red, Apr |
| Fruit: | Capsule, Brown, May |
| Key ID Features: | |
| Leaves grass-like, 4-6 widely-spaced on the stems, linear to narrowly lanceolate, most 8-15cm long x 1-2cm wide (die back in summer as capsules ripen); flowers nodding, 3-4cm long x 2-3cm wide, 6 tepals, 6 stamens, checkered reddish-brown, purple, white, or grey; capsules erect, 3-lobed, 1-2cm long. | |