Editing Fritillaria (section)

== {{anchor|Culture}}Popular culture ==
[[File:AUT Großsteinbach COA.png|thumb|upright|[[Coat of arms]] of [[Großsteinbach]], Austria|alt=Coat of arms of Großsteinbach in Austria, depicting a stylised flower of Fritillaria meleagris]]
[[Shakespeare]], [[Matthew Arnold]] and [[George Herbert]] and more recently [[Vita Sackville-West]] (''The Land'' 1927) wrote romantically about fritillaries.{{sfn|Scarry|2016}}{{sfn|Ellacombe|1895}}{{sfn|Byfield|2013}} Fritillaries were also a favourite of the Dutch flower painters that emerged around 1600, such as [[Ambrosius Bosschaert]]{{sfn|van Berkel|2010}} and [[Jacob de Gheyn II]],{{sfn|Boom|1975}} and appeared in Italian art, such as that of [[Jacopo Ligozzi]] in the late sixteenth century.{{sfn|Tomasi|Hirschauer|2002}}

Fritillaries are commonly used as [[floral emblem]]s. ''[[F. meleagris]]'' (snake's head fritillary) is the county flower of [[Oxfordshire]], UK, and the [[Province flowers of Sweden|provincial flower]] of [[Uppland]], Sweden, where it is known as ''kungsängslilja'' ("[[Kungsängen]] lily").{{sfn|Volkoomen|2017}} In Germany, ''F. meleagris'' appears as a heraldic device in a number of municipalities, such as [[Hetlingen]], [[Seestermühe]] and [[Winseldorf]], and also in Austria ([[Großsteinbach]]).

In [[Croatia]] this species is known as ''kockavica'' (from {{lang|hr|kocka}}, {{lit|cube}}), and the checkerboard pattern of its flowers may have inspired the [[Croatian checkerboard|checkerboard pattern on the nation's coat of arms]]. ''F. camschatcensis'' (Kamchatka fritillary) is the floral emblem of [[Ishikawa Prefecture]] and [[Obihiro, Hokkaidō|Obihiro City]] in Japan. Its Japanese name is ''kuroyuri'' (クロユリ), meaning "dark lily". ''[[Fritillaria montana]]'' is the floral emblem of [[Giardino Botanico Alpino di Pietra Corva]], a [[botanical garden]] in Italy.{{sfn|Pietra Corva|2017}}