Texas Gardening: Gardening with Texas Native Plants & Wildflowers, part 18, 1 by LindaTX8

LindaTX8 wrote:
My unidentified clematis vine finally bloomed! Some insect had eaten on the bloom, so one petal is partly missing. It could be a Purple Leatherflower, but the bloom is smaller and hasn't opened up much.
Glad you saw this, Cat. I looked at the opening seed capsules I found on my own Hybanthus plants today and different ones split into either two or three parts when they open up. Only one other species of Hybanthus listed on the wildflower site and it's not in Texas. Who knows? As very little is known about the species H. verticillata, it may turn out later on that it has different varieties.

This message was edited Jun 11, 2009 10:46 PM