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  2. Animals
  3. Arthropods
  4. Insects
  5. Butterflies and Moths
  6. Swallowtail and Birdwing Butterflies
  7. Common Swallowtails
  8. Common Swallowtails
  9. Black Swallowtail
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What supports Black Swallowtail

1,105 native plants
support it in the US
106 caterpillar hosts 999 flowers

Caterpillar hosts All

106 native plants its caterpillars eat, most recorded first.

  • Turpentine Broom Thamnosma montana
  • Golden Alexanders Zizia aurea
  • Water Hemlock Cicuta maculata
  • Purple-stemmed Angelica Angelica atropurpurea
  • Herbwilliam Ptilimnium capillaceum
  • Water Parsnip Sium suave
  • Bulblet-bearing Water Hemlock Cicuta bulbifera
  • Honewort Cryptotaenia canadensis
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Nectar plants All

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

  • Purple Coneflower Echinacea purpurea
  • Wild Bergamot Monarda fistulosa
  • Butterfly Milkweed Asclepias tuberosa
  • Pickerelweed Pontederia cordata
  • Fall Phlox Phlox paniculata
  • Swamp Milkweed Asclepias incarnata
  • Scarlet Beebalm Monarda didyma
  • Bristle Thistle Cirsium horridulum
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