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Verticordia vicinella

Verticordia vicinella
Photo: Cal Wood, CC BY 4.0

Verticordia vicinella is a small shrub in the myrtle family, endemic to south-west Western Australia, with scented pink or pale yellow flowers. It is grown as a garden or native-plant shrub, mainly in free-draining sandy soil.

Family
Myrtaceae (Myrtle family)
Grows as
Shrub
Light
Full sun
Water
Water regularly while establishing, then let the soil dry between waterings; it tolerates dry conditions once established.
Soil
Well-drained sandy soil or sandy potting mix.
Temperature
Hardy in mild to warm climates; protect from prolonged frost.
How easy
Easy
Native range
S. Western Australia
Climate
subtropical

About

Verticordia vicinella 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 groups of small, scented, pink or pale yellow flowers, growing near Esperance and in the Cape Arid National Park.

How to grow it

Verticordia vicinella is readily propagated from cuttings, easy to establish in gardens and is hardy in well-drained soil.

Where it grows

This verticordia grows in sand, sometimes in areas that are wet in winter. It occurs in the south of Western Australia between Esperance and Mount Ragged in the Cape Arid National Park in the Esperance Plains and Mallee 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 vicinella 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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