#1697 · 🦎 reptiles

Plains Garter Snake

Thamnophis radix

LCleast concern 🦎 Reptiles 📍 outside Europe

9 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences

1. © Beren Erkan (herper/photographer) · CC BY-NC 4.0
2. © Beren Erkan (herper/photographer) · CC BY-NC 4.0
3. © Beren Erkan (herper/photographer) · CC BY-NC 4.0
4. © Beren Erkan (herper/photographer) · CC BY-NC 4.0
5. © Neil Balchan · CC BY-NC 4.0
6. © Cole Tomlinson · CC BY-NC 4.0
7. © Beren Erkan (herper/photographer) · CC BY-NC 4.0
8. © Jeff Skrentny · CC BY-NC 4.0
9. © Tom Benson · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0

what is it?

The Plains garter snake ( Thamnophis radix ) is a species of garter snake native to most of the central United States as far north as Canada and as far south as Texas. It has a distinctive orange or yellow stripe from its head to tail, and the rest of its body is mainly a gray-green color. The snake is commonly found living near water sources such as streams and ponds, but can also be found in urban...

base stats

NL sightings 0iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 9,815iNaturalist observations
threat LCleast concern

Bars compare against all animals on log scales: up to 300,000 Dutch and 600,000 worldwide sightings (the most-seen species), 150 t (blue whale), 30 m and 400 years (Greenland shark).

fun facts

No confirmed wild sightings in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: you'd have to travel for this one.
9,815 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
Scientifically named by Spencer Fullerton Baird in 1853 (173 years ago).