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  1. Life
  2. Animals
  3. Arthropods
  4. Insects
  5. Butterflies and Moths
  6. Swallowtail and Birdwing Butterflies
  7. Pipevine Swallowtails and Allies
  8. Polydamas Swallowtail
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What supports Polydamas Swallowtail

21 native plants
support it in the US
7 caterpillar hosts 14 flowers

Caterpillar hosts All

7 native plants its caterpillars eat, most recorded first.

  • Virginia Snakeroot Aristolochia serpentaria
  • Marsh's Dutchman's-pipe Aristolochia pentandra
  • Pipevine Aristolochia macrophylla
  • Woolly Dutchman's Pipe Aristolochia tomentosa
  • Swanflower Aristolochia erecta on pipevines and birthworts
  • Aristolochia coryi on pipevines and birthworts
  • Texas Dutchman's Pipe Aristolochia reticulata on pipevines and birthworts

Nectar plants All

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

  • Firebush Hamelia patens
  • Tropical Sage Salvia coccinea
  • Chiggery Grapes Heliotropium verdcourtii
  • Yellow Trumpet Flower Tecoma stans
  • Wild Leadwort Plumbago zeylanica
  • Blue Mistflower Conoclinium coelestinum
  • Pineland Lantana Lantana depressa
  • Sea Lavender Tournefortia gnaphalodes
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