Common Florida Garden Snakes

Here is a quick look at most of floridas snakes by pattern.

Common florida garden snakes. The snake was once common but has since been largely killed off by humans. These creatures play an important role in our florida ecosystems. Some are single uniform colors. An american alligator and a burmese python in everglades national park.

Although there are 50 species of snakes in the sunshine state there are only six that are venomous to humans. Of floridas 46 native species of snakes 35 are found in the central florida region shown in blue on this map including four of the six venomous species timber rattlesnakes and copperheads are only found in north floridaonly one non native species the tiny brahminy blindsnake is found in central florida. In south florida youre likely to find coral snakes eastern diamondbacks and pygmy rattlesnakes. Believe it or not snakes are just as frightened of you as you are of them and in most instances they will move as quickly as possible in the other direction when they come into contact with you.

These are the racers and coachwhip snakes another irascible group of snakes best left alone though challenging to catch anyway. Florida the sunshine state is situation in the south easterly part of the usa with borders with the gulf of mexico alabama georgia and even cuba to give you some idea of the kind of climate you can expect hot and dry temperatures with the odd bout of severe thunder and rain storms the perfect place for snakes to inhabit. Like all snakes it should be respected as it plays a vital part in the local ecosystem and controls rodent. Common snakes of florida.

Thamnophis sirtalis linnaeus 1766 the following will separate the two garter snakes found in florida. The most common snakes in florida. Email 9 facebook 18 twitter 5 reddit 9. Florida snakes visual identification.

This snake should be given a wide berth as it is one of the most dangerous snakes in florida. One described even eats venomous snakes and is a federally protected threatened species. Black racers southern black racer. Florida snake identification key common garter snake.

But where youre likely to find them you can normally find cottonmouths. 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. Different species of snake can often be distinguished by their characteristic color patterns. This list of snakes of florida includes all snakes in the us.

The fast snakes as i call them are another moderately common group of north american colubrids but are really pretty rarely encountered in gardens. Read on to learn about some of floridas most. Others have dark or light markings organized into stripes spots blotches or some other pattern. Commonly confused snakes in central florida.

Red belly snakes florida brown. There are 46 species of snakes in florida and only 6 of them are venomous. State of florida non venomous. The florida banded water snake for example is common near bodies of water and is entirely harmless.