- Source: Orthosia scoparia
Orthosia scoparia, commonly known as the leafless swallow-wort, is a species of flowering plant in the genus Orthosia. It is an herbaceous vine with narrow opposite leaves. It is a host plant for the caterpillars of various butterfly species as well as Sephina gundlachii. It is in the Apocynaceae (Dogbane) family. It grows in the Southeastern U.S. and Caribbean and is native in the Bahamas, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Florida, Georgia, Haiti, Jamaica, Mississippi, Puerto Rico and South Carolina. A perennial it has yellowish / greenish white flowers. Caterpillars of the faithful beauty moth (Composia fidelissima) are thought
to feed on it.
A climbing milkweed vine it reaches about 5 feet tall. It has six homotypic synonyms and twenty heterotypic synonyms.
References
Kata Kunci Pencarian:
- Daftar ngengat Taiwan
- Orthosia scoparia
- Orthosia (plant)
- Vincetoxicum
- Metastelma
- List of Lepidoptera of Bosnia and Herzegovina
- List of Lepidoptera of Luxembourg
- List of Lepidoptera of Belarus
- List of Lepidoptera of Croatia
- List of Lepidoptera of Serbia and Montenegro
- List of Lepidoptera of North Macedonia
