Yellow shade indicates verified sighting. Slanted hatch indicates pre-1980 records only. Not all specimens upon which these maps are based have been verified. Milk snake, rat snake, Great Plains rat snake, fox snake. Prairie kingsnake, L .
Some individuals uniform olive brown, a few striped.
Belly cream or yellowish gray with dim dark markings. Young are more distinctly blotched and their bellies more clearly marked with black. Grasslands from high-quality remnant prairie to degraded brushy fields. Less common in heavily farmed black-soil prairie. Active by day during spring and autumn, but becomes nocturnal during hot summer months.