Pipevine food sources

[chris kline]

Thats the thing with pipevine, it is so inconspicuous.  Quite awhile back I was looking for pipevine for Wayne Whaley here at the Arb.  I had been told where it was (and had a picture of it) and went out and looked and looked and looked and didn't see a single plant.

  A co-worker showed me a plant right outside my office.  I stared at it for quite awhile, went back out into the Arboretum, and low and behold found the stuff all over the place.  Its one of those plants that are real easy to walk past, kind of like Floerkea back east (at least for me!).
   
  chris
  
Paulette Haywood <habitatdesigns at hotmail.com> wrote:
      Virginia snakeroot (Aristolochia serpentaria) is a very inconspicous member of the pipevine group -- often hardly looks like a vine at all.  Compared to many of it pipevine cousins, it is tiny and low growing.  Pipevine swallowtails definitely use it as a host plant.  Check for it in places that seem to support the swallowtails but not the typical "pipevine".    -- Paulette Haywood

  
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   Paulette Haywood /Birmingham, AL   

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