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  8. Pawpaw Sphinx
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What supports Pawpaw Sphinx

55 native plants
support it in the US
47 caterpillar hosts 8 flowers

Caterpillar hosts All

47 native plants its caterpillars eat, most recorded first.

  • Common Pawpaw Asimina triloba
  • Sweetfern Comptonia peregrina
  • Lowbush Blueberry Vaccinium angustifolium keystone
  • Common Bilberry Vaccinium myrtillus keystone
  • Winterberry Holly Ilex verticillata
  • Bog Bilberry Vaccinium uliginosum keystone
  • Gallberry Ilex glabra
  • Smooth Alder Alnus serrulata
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Nectar plants All

8 native plants whose flowers it visits, most recorded first.

  • Fall Phlox Phlox paniculata
  • Pinkladies Oenothera speciosa
  • White Pitcher Plant Sarracenia leucophylla
  • White Fringeless Orchid Platanthera integrilabia
  • Largefruit Sand Verbena Abronia macrocarpa
  • Common Jewelweed Impatiens capensis on touch-me-nots
  • Pale Jewelweed Impatiens pallida on touch-me-nots
  • Slenderleaf Clammyweed Cleome aldenella on spider flowers

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