Fritillaria meleagris - Leif Sohlman

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Fritillaria meleagris - Leif Sohlman

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Leif Sohlman

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Photigraphed in the parks of Enk�ping, Sweden, summer 2013.
Canon 5D mk III
Processed in Lightroom and Topaz plugins.
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Jump to: navigation, search Fritillaria meleagris is a species of flowering plant in the family Liliaceae. Its common names include snake's head fritillary, snake's head (the original English name), chess flower, frog-cup, guinea-hen flower, leper lily (because its shape resembled the bell once carried by lepers), Lazarus bell, checkered lily or, in northern Europe, simply fritillary.
The flower has a chequered pattern in shades of purple, or is sometimes pure white.[3] It flowers from March to May and grows between 15�40 cm (6�16 in) in height. The plant has a button-shaped bulb, about 2 cm in diameter, containing poisonous alkaloids. It grows in grasslands in damp soils and river meadows at altitudes up to 800 m (2,625 ft).

Fritillaria meleagrisF. meleagris is native to Europe but in many places it is an endangered species that is rarely found in the wild but is commonly grown in gardens. In Croatia, the flower is known as kockavica and is associated by some with the country's national symbol.[4] It is the official flower of the Swedish province of Uppland, where it grows in large quantities every spring at the meadows in Kungs�ngen (Kings meadow), just outside Uppsala, which gives the flower its Swedish name, kungs�ngslilja (Lily of Kings meadow). It is also found in Sandemar strand�ngar (Sandemar beach meadows), a nature reserve west of the village of Dalar� in the Stockholm Archipelago

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January 4th, 2014

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