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Verticordia jamiesonii is a small open shrub from the dry interior of south-west Western Australia, grown for its tiny leaves, red new growth and feathery white flowers. It is best kept in full sun in sandy, free-draining soil, and it tolerates drought and frost.
Verticordia jamiesonii is a flowering plant in the myrtle family, Myrtaceae and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is small shrub with short leaves crowded on young branchlets and white to pale pink flowers in small groups on the ends of branches in early spring.
The tiny leaves, shiny red new growth and feathery flowers of this verticordia have been described as "attractive" features and the plant has been cultivated since 1991. Propagation has usually been from cuttings and the plants have established in sand with gravel in full sun. They are relatively drought and frost hardy as well as resistant to the fungal disease that affect some other eremophilas.
This verticordia grows in sand or clay on low lateritic breakaways and on rocky hills in open shrubland. It occurs as scattered populations, mostly on pastoral leases between the Gascoyne River and Yalgoo and in the Gibson Desert in the Gascoyne, Gibson Desert, Great Victoria Desert, Murchison and Yalgoo biogeographic regions.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Verticordia jamiesonii 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.
