Florida Garden Snakes

An american alligator and a burmese python in everglades national park.

Florida garden snakes. There are a number of non venomous snakes you may find in your garden including black racers southern ring necked snakes rat or corn snakes garter snakes and rough green snakes. Out of the 50 species only 6 are v enomous. Here is a quick look at most of florida s snakes by pattern.

Florida snakes visual identification. State of florida non venomous. Florida snake identification key common garter snake.

A website dedicated to the identification of florida snakes. One of the most common snakes of florida you might spot these in highly populated areas usually green or brown in colour with stripes of a pale colour running down the length of it. Black racers southern black racer.

So that would leave 44 species and subspecies that are non venomous and harmless unless you break your leg or neck trying to get away from one. Different species of snake can often be distinguished by their characteristic color patterns. Others have dark or light markings organized into stripes spots blotches or some other pattern.

Of the 46 snake species native to florida only six are venomous. Some are single uniform colors. This list of snakes of florida includes all snakes in the u s.

Thamnophis sirtalis linnaeus 1766 the following will separate the two garter snakes found in florida if you are unable to distinguish between them based on the characteristics in the key below you probably can do so using the geographic location alone.