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  6. Brush-footed Butterflies
  7. Peacock Butterflies
  8. Banded Peacock
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What supports Banded Peacock

21 native plants
support it in the US
13 caterpillar hosts 8 flowers

Caterpillar hosts All

13 native plants its caterpillars eat, most recorded first.

  • Common Wild Petunia Ruellia nudiflora on wild petunias
  • Gregg's Tube Tongue Justicia pilosella on water-willow
  • Metz's Ruellia Ruellia metziae on wild petunias
  • Western Ruellia Ruellia occidentalis on wild petunias
  • Runyon's Water Willow Justicia runyonii on water-willow
  • Yucatán Ruellia Ruellia yucatana on wild petunias
  • Justicia turneri on water-willow
  • Texas Lantana Lantana urticoides on lantanas
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Nectar plants All

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

  • Siam Weed Chromolaena odorata
  • White Twinevine Funastrum clausum
  • Turk's Cap Malvaviscus arboreus
  • Possum Grape Cissus verticillata
  • Snow Squarestem Melanthera nivea
  • Chiggery Grapes Heliotropium verdcourtii
  • Rio Grande Zinnia Zinnia austrotexana on zinnias
  • Climbing Milkweed Funastrum cynanchoides on Funastrum

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