 This subspecies exhibits many colors and patterns and can be gray, green, or tan with darker banding or may even be solid reddish orange or straw yellow.A third subspecies, the Atlantic salt marsh snake ("N. c. taeniata"), is restricted to a small stretch of coastline in Volusia and Indian River Counties, Florida.This race is smaller than the other two and has a color pattern of four dark stripes on the neck which are replaced by a series of dark blotches or bands on the posterior portion of the snake's body.