patterned with alternating squares of color

marked by changeable fortune

nonvenomous tan and brown king snake with an arrow-shaped occipital spot; southeastern ones have red stripes like coral snakes

Eurasian checkered lily with pendant flowers usually veined and checkered with purple or maroon on a pale ground and shaped like the bells carried by lepers in medieval times; widely grown as an ornamental

any liliaceous plant of the genus Fritillaria having nodding variously colored flowers

markings are darker and more marked than in western whiptail; from southeastern Colorado to eastern Chihuahua