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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. Common Swallowtails
  9. Old World Swallowtail
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What supports Old World Swallowtail

38 native plants
support it in the US
17 caterpillar hosts 21 flowers

Caterpillar hosts All

17 native plants its caterpillars eat, most recorded first.

  • Tarragon Artemisia dracunculus
  • Common Cowparsnip Heracleum maximum
  • Beach Glehnia Glehnia littoralis
  • Arctic Butterbur Petasites frigidus
  • Heart-leaf Golden Alexanders Zizia aptera
  • Kneeling Angelica Angelica genuflexa
  • Mountain Sagewort Artemisia norvegica
  • Honewort Cryptotaenia canadensis
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Nectar plants All

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

  • Cuckooflower Cardamine pratensis
  • Common Yarrow Achillea millefolium
  • Black Locust Robinia pseudoacacia
  • Giant Goldenrod Solidago gigantea keystone
  • Chives Allium schoenoprasum
  • Pineland Lantana Lantana depressa
  • Eastern White Pine Pinus strobus
  • Sea Thrift Armeria maritima
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