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- Adult body length: 22 - 32 inches, record 45½ inches
- Breeding period: mate in spring and fall
- Young per year: lay 3 - 12 eggs from June to August
- Typical foods: insects and spiders
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Appearance
The Rough Green Snake has keeled scales and a divided anal plate . It is uniform pea-green in color with a white to yellowish green under surface. Recently hatched individuals are greenish-gray.
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Range
Overall Range
Southern New Jersey south to Florida, west to eastern Kansas and through Texas into Mexico.
Range in Ohio
Extreme southern counties. |
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Local Habitat
Vines, bushes and trees near water, often found in dense vegetation overhanging the edge of a stream or lake.
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Lifestyle
The Rough Green Snake is diurnal. People who have seen it in nature call it a "graceful, mild-tempered tree-dweller." It moves slowly through vegetation, its green color making it almost invisible. This snake swims so well that one author calls it "almost semi-aquatic, freely entering shallow bodies of water."
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Links
ODNR, Division of Wildlife, "Species A-Z Guide"
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