Texas Gardening: Gardening with Texas Native Plants & Wildflowers, part 11., 1 by LindaTX8

LindaTX8 wrote:
This is one of my favorites, a native clematis! In Marshall Enquist's book, Wildflowers of the Texas Hill Country, it's called the Purple Leatherflower, Clematis Pitcheri. Oh, FYI, that book is back on the market again (after being out of print) and I highly recommend it. I just love the time of year when these flowers are blooming! I've got the plant climbing on a trellis in a slightly shady corner of the garden and it grabs hold of some overhanging live oak limbs to climb even farther. When it first bloomed a while back, I couldn't get a very good shot of it because the blooms were up in the tree.