This is an anise plant. I planted it a few years ago, each year it produces flowers which turn to seed. The seeds drop and there are more anise plants. The important part of the anise plant to swallowtails is that once the eggs are laid on the plant the caterpillars can NOT survive on any other plant. There is plenty of anise to raise my butterflies. Swallowtails also use parsley, but I had a hard time keeping enough parsley for these hungry caterpillars.
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