Males are more colorful than females and have bright green legs, green specks covering the tail and some orange on the throat.
Collared lizards live in the Missouri Ozarks on rocky, dry, open, south-facing hillsides.
They eat insects and other kinds of lizards. Adult collared lizards have the remarkable ability of running on their hind legs when escaping capture. Early settlers to that area saw collared lizards basking on rocks but heard the barklike call of a frog that lives in the same habitat. All lizards native to Missouri are voiceless. Male eastern collared lizard.