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Pipevine Swallowtail
(Battus philenor)
Caterpillar hosts: Pipevines (Aristolochia species), including Aristolochia californica, A. serpentaria and others.
Adult food: Solely nectar from flowers including thistles (Cirsium species), bergamot, lilac, viper's bugloss, common azaleas, phlox, teasel, azaleas, dame's-rocket, lantana, petunias, verbenas, lupines, yellow star thistle, California buckeye, yerba santa, brodiaeas, and gilias.
The Pipevine Swallowtail butterfly can be found in a wide variety of open habitats, open woodland, and woodland edges.
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Butterfly Garden Plants
Common nectar plants in the Garden include:
- Asters
- Bidens
- Buddleia
- Centranthus
- Cosmos
- Daisies
- Lilacs
- Marigolds
- Sweet William
- Verbenas
- Wallflowers (Erysimums)
- Zinnias
 All the flowers make a sensational garden, and the female butterflies will pass through the garden nectaring-
but they will not stay. In the butterfly's short life, the female will be looking for the specific larval food plants
on which she must lay her eggs.
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 The following list identifies the larval food plants for butterflies commonly seen in the Hallberg Butterfly Gardens.
Common larval food plants in the Garden include:
- Mourning Cloak: Willow
- Monarch: Milkweed
- Pipevine Swallowtail: Pipevine
- Tiger Swallowtail: Willow, Alder, Poplar, Apple
- Anise Swallowtail: Carrot family: Anise, Carrot, Bill, Fennel, Parsley
- Cabbage White: Cabbage family, Nasturtium
- Buckeye: Plantain, Snapdragon family
- West Coast Lady: Hollyhock family
- Painted Lady: Hollyhock family
- Skipper (4 kinds): Bunch Grasses
- Militta Crescent: Asters
Gray Hairstreak: Hollyhock family
- Red Admiral: Stinging Nettles, Hops
- Checkered Skipper: Hollyhock family
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