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  1. Life
  2. Animals
  3. Arthropods
  4. Insects
  5. Butterflies and Moths
  6. Swallowtail and Birdwing Butterflies
  7. Common Swallowtails
  8. Tiger Swallowtails and Allies
  9. Pale Swallowtail
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What supports Pale Swallowtail

377 native plants
support it in the US
80 caterpillar hosts 297 flowers

Caterpillar hosts All

80 native plants its caterpillars eat, most recorded first.

  • Coffeeberry Frangula californica
  • Snowbrush Ceanothus Ceanothus velutinus
  • Ocean Spray Holodiscus discolor
  • Fendler's Ceanothus Ceanothus fendleri
  • Hollyleaf Cherry Prunus ilicifolia keystone
  • Bitter Cherry Prunus emarginata keystone
  • Red Alder Alnus rubra
  • Black Hawthorn Crataegus douglasii
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Nectar plants All

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

  • Blue Dicks Dipterostemon capitatus
  • California Buckeye Aesculus californica
  • California Yerba Santa Eriodictyon californicum
  • Cobwebby Thistle Cirsium occidentale
  • Western Wallflower Erysimum capitatum
  • Coyote Mint Monardella villosa
  • Ookow Dichelostemma congestum
  • Snowplant Sarcodes sanguinea
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