Butterfly and Plant

[bobpbx]

What plant is this butterfly holding on to?

 

[bobpbx]

Papilio eurymedon - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[bobpbx]

By the way, I'm not familiar with insects such as this. This swallowtail, if my guess of P. eurymedon is correct, should not be on the east coast at all, it's a western species. If anyone knows more about this, please let me know.

 

[Scroggy]

I think that's an eastern tiger swallowtail, Papilio glaucus. The plant is some kind of monocot with a glaucous stem, obviously, but I haven't gotten further than that.

 

[bobpbx]

The plant is swamp pink.

 

[Scroggy]

Nice. I was going to poke around for it in Salem Co. this spring, but it was so hectic I never got to it.