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Project Noah Nature School
Chemical engineering student at Penn State that can usually be found wandering in the woods. My specialties are flora and insects.
State College, Pennsylvania
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It's an unripe seed pot from a tulip tree
Could be Nuphar advena, but not a good enough close-up
I was pretty careful because they can give pretty painful bites!!
Comparing the abdomens of the two, it does have two bands of yellow spots while the pipevine only has one! The pipevine abdomen is also bluish in color
It seems to be very faded, possibly quite near death... if its a black swallowtail then the orangish bullseye markings of the inner wing are missing, but it doesn't have anything resembling the band of yellow spots on the inner wing of a pipevine...very perplexing
It could be another species of honeysuckle shrub?
Does not appear to be pimpinella major 'rosea'... but some type of other pink-stemmed cultivars
Looks like an allium, can't tell without the flower though :)
Probably the 'blue spire' or 'lacey blue' cultivar?
I'd guess it is in the anemone genus? maybe a wild type
