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  1. Life
  2. Animals
  3. Arthropods
  4. Insects
  5. Butterflies and Moths
  6. Swallowtail and Birdwing Butterflies
  7. New World Giant Swallowtails and Allies
  8. Eastern Giant Swallowtail
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What supports Eastern Giant Swallowtail

427 native plants
support it in the US
12 caterpillar hosts 415 flowers

Caterpillar hosts All

12 native plants its caterpillars eat, most recorded first.

  • Northern Prickly Ash Zanthoxylum americanum
  • Common Hoptree Ptelea trifoliata
  • Lime Prickly-ash Zanthoxylum fagara
  • Hercules' Club Zanthoxylum clava-herculis
  • American Bladdernut Staphylea trifolia
  • Redbay Tamala borbonia
  • Limestone Prickly Ash Zanthoxylum hirsutum
  • Black Tupelo Nyssa sylvatica
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Nectar plants All

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

  • Purple Coneflower Echinacea purpurea
  • Wild Bergamot Monarda fistulosa
  • Fall Phlox Phlox paniculata
  • Swamp Milkweed Asclepias incarnata
  • Firebush Hamelia patens
  • Spotted Joe-Pye Weed Eutrochium maculatum
  • Scarlet Beebalm Monarda didyma
  • Field Thistle Cirsium discolor
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