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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 (1.5 m) tall. It has six homotypic synonyms and twenty heterotypic synonyms.
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Orthosia scoparia by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
