Cathy, I grow one of mine in full sun and the other in a location where it gets morning shade and no direct sun until about 12 to 1pm in NC zone 7a. I can tell no difference in the vigor of the plants due to the differing sun exposures. It wouldn't hurt if you placed it where it got part sun/part shade, especially in your zone where the afternoon sun can be much more brutal than in mine.

Mine is only in part sun..and I'm in Canada. It does well in this location.

Well, if it does well in part sun in Canada and North Carolina, then it would probably HATE full sun in Texas.

Thank you for the information. Pitcheri gets a part sun spot.

Thank you so much!
Cathy

Pitcheri does well here in GB, so assume that full sun in Texas might well be a bit too much for it, however it is native to Texas, and is found in various sites there, in sandy woods, creek margins, limestone river bluffs, lakesides, thickets, flood plain woods etc. so it looks as if it can cope with a wide variety of situations. Picheri var, dictyota, with more divided, smaller thicker leaflets is also native to Texas, in the far west, and is found on roadside banks, near creeks etc. A very versatile (site wise) plant!

Cathy,
I'm not an expert in clematis, but I live in Dallas and it depends on the exact plant. I grew some clematis pitcheri (purple) from seed from a garden in Lakewood. Planted some seeds in afternoon shade and one in full sun as an experiment. The full sun plant grew twice as fast as the shade lover and impressed the heck out of me. Trial and error is the best method of testing...good luck

Oh, it is nice to hear from a neighbor!! But you don't understand... I looked for 2 years before I found pitcheri for sale locally. lol If I do trial and error, and it turns out I picked error, well, I think I'd cry. Ok, I guess I could always move it if it looked like it was frying in the sun, right?

Dallasgarden, do you have a good local source for the less available clematis varieties, like pitcheri? I especially love the small flowered native clematis.

Cathy

Cathy,
Sorry didn't get back to you sooner, but I don't have a good local source. If your pitcheri doesn't make it, I can always give you some seed next Fall. Mine set tons this year. Brushwood Nursery has some of our natives...www.gardenvines.com

Hi I was just looking up info about this plant because I'm thinking about buying its seeds. You can buy the seeds from Fragrant Path Seeds.

May people enjoy planting clematis from seed and get good results, but be prepared to wait. They can take a long time to germinate. I see on Brian Collingwood's web site that Pitcherii took 210 days to germinate. Click this link to go to Brian's site. You have to scroll pretty far down the page to find Pitcherii.

It took 9 months for c. pitcheri seeds to germinate, with 75% success. While the seedlings were enjoying the summer weather outside, the squirrels dug them out of their pots and only 10% survived.

I wonder when these two strong survivors that spent the winter outside can be planted in the ground zone 8a. It has been little more than a year since they germinated.