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

913 native plants
support it in the US
164 caterpillar hosts 749 flowers

Caterpillar hosts All

164 native plants its caterpillars eat, most recorded first.

  • Black Cherry Prunus serotina keystone
  • American Tuliptree Liriodendron tulipifera
  • Basswood Tilia americana
  • Green Ash Fraxinus pennsylvanica
  • White Ash Fraxinus americana
  • Sweetbay Magnolia Magnolia virginiana
  • Carolina Ash Fraxinus caroliniana
  • Chokecherry Prunus virginiana keystone
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Nectar plants All

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

  • Wild Bergamot Monarda fistulosa
  • Purple Coneflower Echinacea purpurea
  • Butterfly Milkweed Asclepias tuberosa
  • Swamp Milkweed Asclepias incarnata
  • Fall Phlox Phlox paniculata
  • Hollow Joe-Pye Weed Eutrochium fistulosum
  • Pickerelweed Pontederia cordata
  • Sweet Joe-Pye-weed Eutrochium purpureum
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