I'm hoping that someone can help me to identify this plant. I am new to this, and in my excitement, I neglected to take a photograph before I dried it. When I went back to find it again, I had no success. I have shown it to 3 experts at a local university and they don't recognize it. I am unsure of what color it was when I first picked it (I have learned my lesson and won't do this again!) I live in Northeast Ohio, USA. Any suggestions would be most welcome. I've attached a photo of the dried plant, and I also scanned it and have attached that too. I am hopeful about finding out what it is! This is my first posting. Thank you in advance, Sincerely, Lesley
Any more details about the plant you can remember? Shrub? Tree? What colour were the flowers before drying, and how many petals?
I am embarrassed to say that I do not remember. I had pressed several things, and cannot recall where I got it from. I think that the stem looks as if it might be from a shrub or a tree, but again, cannot recall for sure. The petals seem to be numerous and fringed, clustered and curled when dried, and very thin. I am guessing it was white, but again, this is a guess. I'm sorry that I am so short on any details, and I appreciate your response. I don't know if there is enough here for you to go on, but it would be neat to be able to figure it out. Thanks for your efforts!
It was wild, and it was just a couple of weeks ago, around June 12. I was walking through the edge of a woods and through a cross country running path through the woods right next to a high school and a middle school.
I thought of Solanum, because a couple of days later I found a horse nettle and a nightshade, which had a similar look, but I haven't been able to find anything in a wildflower reference book that has the little fringy petals or a leaf that looks like that. Do you a sense of what kind it might be? Thank you very much for your assistance, i appreciate it!
I've done some more searching and looked at different solanums---particularly solamum americanum (common nightshade)---but it doesn't look quite right, particularly the leaves. On another track, the leaves of celastrus scandens (american bittersweet) do look like my plant's leaves (at least in a couple of references that I have found and attached), but the flowers don't look the same, unless sometimes the stamen can be longer (as indicated in the attached drawing). I appreciate your collective patience with my attempts to identify this. Any thoughts would be welcome.
