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  2. Animals
  3. Arthropods
  4. Insects
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  6. Swallowtail and Birdwing Butterflies
  7. Common Swallowtails
  8. Tiger Swallowtails and Allies
  9. Spicebush Swallowtail
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What supports Spicebush Swallowtail

470 native plants
support it in the US
13 caterpillar hosts 457 flowers

Caterpillar hosts All

13 native plants its caterpillars eat, most recorded first.

  • Northern Spicebush Lindera benzoin
  • Sassafras Sassafras albidum
  • Sweetbay Magnolia Magnolia virginiana
  • Redbay Tamala borbonia
  • American Tuliptree Liriodendron tulipifera
  • Southern Spicebush Lindera melissifolia
  • Eastern Redbud Cercis canadensis
  • Southern Magnolia Magnolia grandiflora on magnolias
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Nectar plants All

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

  • Butterfly Milkweed Asclepias tuberosa
  • Wild Bergamot Monarda fistulosa
  • Fall Phlox Phlox paniculata
  • Swamp Milkweed Asclepias incarnata
  • Cardinal Flower Lobelia cardinalis
  • Purple Coneflower Echinacea purpurea
  • Common Jewelweed Impatiens capensis
  • Scarlet Beebalm Monarda didyma
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