Clematis

Description:

This is the early spring remains of an unusually late blooming flower on a decades old clematis. The flower was small and somewhat misshapen, and the feathery remains are entirely unlike the usual spiraled remains. If it had not grown out of a plant I know well, I wouldn't have guessed it's origin. I now understand that this is the remnants of a seed pod.

Habitat:

An old wooden post in the middle of a yard in a coastal new england town