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Yellow Feather Flower

Verticordia endlicheriana

Yellow Feather Flower
Photo: Geoff Derrin, CC BY-SA 4.0

Yellow Feather Flower is a small shrub from south-west Western Australia, grown for its feathery yellow flowers that may age to red. It is a variable species, and the varieties endlicheriana and angustifolia are the ones most commonly grown in gardens.

Family
Myrtaceae (Myrtle family)
Grows as
Shrub
Light
Full sun
Water
Water moderately while establishing, then let the soil dry between waterings, as it suits a dry-summer climate.
Soil
Well-drained sandy or gritty soil, low in phosphorus, similar to its native sandy soils.
Temperature
10–30 °C; protect from frost
How easy
Moderate
Native range
SW. Australia
Climate
subtropical

About

Verticordia endlicheriana is a flowering plant in the myrtle family, Myrtaceae and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is a shrub with narrow leaves and yellow flowers which in some varieties age to red. It is a variable species and in his 1991 paper, Alex George formally described five varieties.

How to grow it

The varieties endlicheriana and angustifolia are well established in gardens but the other varieties have been difficult to propagate and maintain in cultivation.

Where it grows

This verticordia occurs in a wide range of soils and vegetation associations in the south-west of Western Australia, with each variety having slightly differing requirements.

Other Verticordia plants

Verticordia acerosa · Verticordia aereiflora · White featherflower · Verticordia amphigia · Verticordia apecta · Verticordia argentea · Verticordia attenuata · Verticordia aurea · Verticordia auriculata · Verticordia bifimbriata · Verticordia blepharophylla · Verticordia brachypoda

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Verticordia endlicheriana by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.

The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.

Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.

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