Smooth Green Snake (Liochlorophis vernalis)
Description: Adults 12" to 26" in length. Color uniformly green on top, white to cream on underside. Slender body, with smooth scales. Divided anal plate.
Smooth Green Snake
Scientific Name: Liochlorophis vernalis
Size: 14-20 inches (36-51 cm) in length
PA Status: Species of special concern ...
Smooth Green Snake
Relatives in same Genus
Rough Green Snake (O. aestivus) ...
Smooth Green Snake (Liochlorophis vernalis)
No photo of the Smooth Green Snake available.
Smooth Green Snake (Liochlorophis vernalis)
Description: A small, smooth scaled bright green snake with a whitish or yellowish belly. Young green snakes are olive, brown, or gray. An occasional adult specimen will retain the juvenile color.
The Smooth Green Snakes are diurnal. Although it is a good climber, this snake typically is terrestrial. While moving through grass and low shrubs the color of this snake provides excellent camouflage.
The smooth green snake is found in southeastern Saskatchewan and Manitoba, southern Ontario and Quebec and the Maritimes. In the U.S., it is found in small pockets east of the Rockies.
Likes to Hang Out: ...
Smooth Green Snake
Opheodrys vernalis (12-20", up to 26")
Unpatterned and green above, white to pale yellow below, the smooth green snake is difficult to confuse with any other snake in Massachusetts.
42. Smooth Green Snake - Liochlorophis vernalis
Description: 11 ¾ - 19 ¾" (30 - 50 cm). This species is green dorsally and cream white ventrally. It is narrow and has smooth scales. Anal plate divided.
Western Smooth Green Snake - Liochlorophis vernalis
GENUS Masticophis
Eastern Coachwhip - Masticophis flagellum flagellum ...
WESTERN SMOOTH GREEN SNAKE
Opheodrys vernalis blanchardi
The western smooth green snake is a subspecies of the smooth green snake. The only difference is in the scale count.
Range The Smooth Green Snake is found in scattered populations in Minnesota. It's range once supposedly spanned across most of Minnesota and much of north central and northeastern North America.
Zac and a smooth green snake (Opheodrys v. vernalis) at Dolly Sods
Zachary Loughman
Undergraduate Degree: West Liberty State College ...
Predators of adult nuthatches include owls and diurnal birds of prey (such as Sharp-shinned and Cooper's Hawks), and nestlings and eggs are eaten by woodpeckers, small squirrels, and climbing snakes such as the Smooth Green Snake.
Genus Liochlorophis (smooth green snakes)
Genus Lioheterophis (Ihering's snake)
Genus Liopeltis (reed snakes) ...
Miscellaneous: The skin of the rough green snake turns blue soon after it dies. A cousin of the rough green snake, the smooth green snake (Opheodrys vernalis) may occur in western North Carolina, but no reliable verification exists.
Their bright green color easily distinguishes them from all other snakes in Georgia and South Carolina but the similar Smooth Green Snake replaces this species in the Appalachian Mountains and the Northeast.
From this table I learned that Mesa Verde National Park contains a bunch of herps that I have yet to encounter anywhere, including Tiger Salamanders, Western Chorus Frogs, Variable Skinks, Milk Snakes, Smooth Green Snakes, and Prairie Rattlesnakes.
North American Racer (Blue racer) *RSG
Northern water snake
Plains garter snake
Plains hog-nosed snake *RSG
Ratsnake *RSG
Redbelly snake
Ringneck snake
Smooth green snake (Grass snake)
Western Fox snake ...
Northern ringneck snake
Northern water snake
Prairie ringneck snake
Queen snake
Smooth green snake
Timber rattler snake (Protected Wild Animal)
Western fox snake (sometimes called "pine" snake)
Western ribbon snake ...
Smooth Green Snake (Liochlorophis vernalis)
Southern Copperhead (Agkistrodon contortrix contortrix)
Speckled Racer (Drymobius margaritiferus)
Texas Diamondback Terrapin (Malaclemys terrapin littoralis)
Texas Horned Lizard (Phrynosoma cornutum) ...
 See also: Green Snake, Snake, Garter Snake, Racer, Ribbon Snake
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