Host plants:   Virginia snakeroot, (Aristolochia serpentaria), Pipevine (Aristolochia macrophylla), Woolly Dutchman’s pipe (Aristolochia tomentosa), Texas Dutchman’s pipe (Aristolochia reticulate), Watson's Dutchman’s pipe (Aristolochia watsonii), and California Dutchman’s pipe (Aristolochia californica)

Adult food: Pipevine butterflies frequent thistle (Cirsium) flowers, the pink and purple flowers of the Phlox species, and ironweed of Vernonia species.

Native to: Pipevine Swallowtails are widely distributed across North America. In the United States, the butterfly is found in New England down to Florida west to Nebraska, Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, California, and Oregon. There is also an isolated population in central California. They have also been observed as far south as Mexico and as far north as Ontario.

Habitat: They frequent warm, temperate environments, and can be found in open grasslands, woodlands, meadows, and backyard gardens. They favor places where pipevine (Aristolochia) grows in abundance. Males have also been observed to take moisture and nutrients from mud, a behavior that is motivated by the presence of other male butterflies. 

Host plants: Passiflora lutea, and Passiflora affinis.

Adult food: Lantana, aster, thistle, black-eyed susan, and other nector rich plants found in gardens and natural landscapes 

Native to: USA, Central and South America

Habitat:. Moderately sunny areas near open grasslands, parks, woodlands and they are also commonly seen in local butterfly gardens across the U.S. They migrate north in the spring and south in the autumn. 

Host plants: Water hyssop (Bacopa monnieri), lemon bacopa (Bacopa caroliniensis), tropical waterhyssop (Bacopa innominata), frogfruit (Phyla nodiflora), lanceleaf frogfruit (Phyla lanceolata), and Carolina wild petunia (Ruellia caroliniana).

Native to: Southeastern United States, Central America, and throughout much of South America. 

Habitat: Open, moist areas such as edges of ponds and streams, along shallow ditches, weedy fields, and parks.

Host plants: Black cherry (Prunus serotina Ehrh.), deerberry (Vaccineum stamineum L.), occasionally Carolina willow (Salix caroliniana Michx.), and Wild Cherry (Prunus serotina).

Adult food: Adults visit rotting fruit, dung, and sap flows.

Native to: Eastern USA

Habitat:. Deciduous forest margins and openings, woodland trails, utility easements, stream corridors, parks, and disturbed, brushy suburban areas.

Host plants: Spicebush (Lindera benzoin)

Native to: Eastern USA and southern Ontario, but occasionally strays as far as the American plains states, Cuba, Manitoba, and Colorado.

Habitat: Deciduous woodlands, wooded swamps, and pine barrens. It can also be found in meadows, and gardens where its host and nectar plants grow.

Host plants: Wild petunia (Ruellia humilis), Ruellia caroliniensis, and Mexican bluebell (Ruellia simplex).

Native to: USA namely Florida and Texas, Central and South America.

Habitat: Subtropical evergreen or semideciduous forests, plantations, and orchids.

Host plants: American Pawpaw (Asimina triloba)

Native to: Eastern United States and south-eastern Canada

Habitat: Corridors of wooded land often alongside bodies of water such as riversides, lakeshores, marshes, and open moist woods where the host plant grows.  

Behavior: Male butterflies participate in a behavior known as puddling, in which they congregate on sand, gravel, or moist soil to obtain salts and amino acids. Other food sources include rotting fruit.

Host plants: Common Rue (Ruta graveolus), Wild Lime (Zanthoxylum fagara), Hercules Club (Zanthoxylum clavaherculis), Torchwood, (Amyris elemifera), Water Ash (Ptelea trifoliata) and, cultivated citrus (in the Citrus genus).  

Adult food: Milkweed, goldenrod, and plants in the Rutaceae family 

Native to: Eastern USA

Habitat: Deciduous forest and citrus orchards

Host plants: in the Parsley/Carrot family, Apiaceae, such as Queen Anne's Lace, and Daucus carota.On the Delmarva Peninsula, it seems to prefer Fennel, (Foeniculum vulgare). Also cultivated plants: carrots, celery, caraway, dill, parsley. The caterpillars feed on leaves or flowers. 

Adult food: milkweed, thistle, Joe-pye weed

Native to: Widespread throughout the USA, Central America, and the northern parts of South America

Habitat: found in open areas like fields, parks, marshes or deserts, and they prefer tropical or temperate habitats.

Host plants: tulip tree (Liriodendron tulipifera), sweet bay magnolia (Magnolia virginiana), wild black cherry (Prunus serotina), and in the deep south Sweet bay magnolia (Magnolia virginiana)

Native to: Widespread across the eastern United States from southern Vermont to Florida west to eastern Texas and the Great Plains.

Habitat: Woodlands, fields, rivers, creeks, roadsides, and gardens. They are also seen in urban parks and city yards.

Host plants: Partridge pea (Cassia fasciculata), Powderpuff (Mimosa strigillosa), and Cassia nicitans

Adult food: Antana and marigold. 

Native to: Eastern USA and Central America

Habitat:. Open fields, meadows, and gardens, where its host plants are present. 

Host plants: Yellow passionflower (Passiflora lutea), corky-stemmed passionflower (Passiflora suberosa), and two-flower passionflower (Passiflora biflora). 

Adult food: The adults are unusual among butterflies in that they eat pollen as well as sip nectar. This ability contributes to their longevity—they can live up to 3 months as adults in the wild and 4–5 months in the lab.

Native to:  South America, Central America, the West Indies, Mexico, South Texas, and peninsular Florida. Adults sometimes migrate north to New Mexico, South Carolina, and Nebraska during the warmer months. 

Habitat:. Tropical hammocks, moist forests, edges, or fields.

Host plants: Narrow-leaf plantain (Plantago lanceolata), the common greater plantain (Plantago major) and (Ruellia caroliniensis)

Native to: North America and some of Central America, including the eastern half of the USA, the lower to middle Midwest, the Southwest (including California), southern Canada, and Mexico.

Habitat: They inhabit fields, parks, pastures, meadows, and coastal dunes. They can also be found along roadsides and in other disturbed, weedy places. They are often near their food plants, and may also feed or drink around mud puddles.

Host plants: Shepherd's Purse (Capsella bursa-pastoris), Virginia Peppergrass (Lepidium virginicum), and cultivated mustards.

Adult food: Lantana and Eupatorium

Native to: Tropical America from Brazil north to southern peninsular Florida and the Florida Keys and Antilles. It frequently visits coastal Texas and is a rare stray to Nebraska and Colorado. 

Habitat: Tropical evergreen and semideciduous forests. They are shade-loving and often feed during the night and on cloudy days.

Host plants: Virginia Peppergrass (Lepidium virginicum), Saltwort, (Batis maritima), Coastal Searocket (Cakile lanceolata).   

Adult food: Goldenrod, boneset

Native to: Atlantic and Gulf coasts of the United States, and south to Argentina

Habitat: Salt marshes, coastal dunes, open fields, and gardens.

Host plants: Hairy Bittercress, Cardamine hirsuta, Small-flowered Bittercress, Cardamine parviflora, Smooth Rockcress, Arabis laevigata, Lyre-leaved Rockcress, Arabis lyrata, Purple Rockcress, Arabis divaricarpa, Shale Barrens Rockcress, Arabis serotina.

Adult food: Violet, spring beauty, toothwort, mustard

Native to: Eastern United States

Habitat: Falcate Orangetip are found in deciduous woodlands and mixed pine-oak woods. Clark and Clark (1951) cite a preference (in Virginia) for low areas "with large, rough-barked trees near streams or swamps" and "damp ravines and valley bottoms" in the mountains.

Host plants: Hackberry (Celtis laevigata).

Adult food: Nectar from flowers of aster, dogbane, dogwood, goldenrod, sweet pepperbush, and others.

Native to: USA, Central America, and South America

Habitat:. Forest clearings and edges, thorn scrub, brushy fields, roadsides. Massive migrations of this species often attract attention in the Texas and Mexican newspapers.

Host plants: Black cherry (Prunus serotina), White Ash (Fraxinus americana), tulip tree (Liriodendron tulipifera), and sweet bay (Magnolia virginiana).

Adult food: 

Native to: North America from central Alaska southeast across Canada and the northern Great Lakes states to northern New England. 

Habitat:. It is one of the popular puddling species and hundreds will often gather at a single puddle.

Host plants: Mustard species including  American yellowrocket (Barbarea orthoceras), rockcress (Arabis), and bittercresses (Cardamine). Note that garlic mustard (Alliaria petiolata) is toxic to these butterflies. It is closely related to the host mustards so the butterfly larvae often feed on the toxic species which causes death.

Native to: North America throughout Canada and parts of the northeastern United States

Habitat: Prairies, near streams, moist deciduous areas, woodlands, and open fields.

Conservation: Classified as threatened in Massachusetts.

Host plants: Lowbush Blueberry, Vaccinium angustifolium, and Highbush Blueberry, Vaccinium corymboisum, Velvet-leaf Huckleberry, Vaccinium myrtilloides  

Adult food: Aralia hispida, and Pilosella aurantiaca

Native to: Nothern United States and Canada

Habitat:.Open areas, including forest openings, clearings, burned areas, and bogs