Host Plants
The host plants used by the monarch caterpillar include:
Americas:
- Asclepias amplexicaulis - clasping milkweed
- Asclepias asperula - antelope horns
- Asclepias californica - California milkweed
- Asclepias cordifolia - heart-leaf milkweed
- Asclepias curassavica - scarlet milkweed
- Asclepias curtissii - Curtiss' milkweed
- Asclepias eriocarpa - woollypod milkweed
- Asclepias erosa - desert milkweed
- Asclepias exaltata - poke milkweed
- Asclepias fascicularis - narrow-leaf milkweed
- Asclepias humistrata - sandhill milkweed
- Asclepias incarnata - swamp milkweed
- Asclepias linaria - pine-needle milkweed
- Asclepias meadii - Mead's milkweed
- Asclepias nivea - Caribbean milkweed
- Asclepias purpurascens - purple milkweed
- Asclepias speciosa - showy milkweed
- Asclepias subulata - rush milkweed
- Asclepias subverticillata - horsetail milkweed
- Asclepias syriaca - common milkweed
- Asclepias tuberosa - butterfly weed
- Asclepias verticillata - whorled milkweed
- Calotropis gigantea - crown flower
- Calotropis procera - apple of Sodom
- Cynanchum laeva - sand vine
- Sarcostemma clausa - white vine
African:
- Gomphocarpus physocarpus (syn Asclepias physocarpa) - balloon milkweed
- Gomphocarpus fruticosus (syn Asclepias fruticosa) - swan plant
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