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Verticordia interioris

Verticordia interioris is a small, openly branched shrub from the arid interior of south-west Western Australia, grown mainly by Verticordia specialists for its pink flowers. It has been difficult to establish and maintain, so it is best suited to experienced growers.

Family
Myrtaceae (Myrtle family)
Grows as
Shrub
Light
Full sun
Water
Water sparingly once established, allowing the soil to dry between waterings, and avoid waterlogging.
Soil
Free-draining sandy or gravelly soil, ideally with some clay or loam, similar to its natural habitat.
How easy
Hard
Native range
Western Australia
Climate
desert or dry shrubland

About

Verticordia interioris is a flowering plant in the myrtle family, Myrtaceae and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is an openly branched shrub with small, linear leaves and rounded groups of pale to dark pink flowers in early spring.

How to grow it

This verticordia has been grown successfully for up to 7 years in the gardens of verticordia specialists. It has been propagated from seed and from cuttings but has been difficult to establish and maintain.

Where it grows

This verticordia grows in sand with clay, loam and gravel, often near salt lakes. It occurs as scattered populations between the Gascoyne River, south almost to Morawa and east to Meekatharra, Leonora and Laverton in the Avon Wheatbelt, Gascoyne, Great Victoria Desert, Murchison and Yalgoo biogeographic regions.

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 interioris 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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