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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. Palamedes Swallowtail
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What supports Palamedes Swallowtail

134 native plants
support it in the US
12 caterpillar hosts 122 flowers

Caterpillar hosts All

12 native plants its caterpillars eat, most recorded first.

  • Redbay Tamala borbonia
  • Sassafras Sassafras albidum
  • Swamp Redbay Tamala palustris
  • Sweetbay Magnolia Magnolia virginiana
  • Northern Spicebush Lindera benzoin
  • Cucumber-tree Magnolia acuminata
  • Southern Spicebush Lindera melissifolia
  • Southern Magnolia Magnolia grandiflora on magnolias
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Nectar plants All

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

  • Bristle Thistle Cirsium horridulum
  • Pickerelweed Pontederia cordata
  • Nuttall's Thistle Cirsium nuttallii
  • Chapman's Fringed Orchid Platanthera chapmanii
  • White Beggarticks Bidens alba
  • Coastalplain Chaffhead Carphephorus corymbosus
  • Cardinal Flower Lobelia cardinalis
  • Fewflower Milkweed Asclepias lanceolata
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