Verticordia is a genus of circa 102 “feather flower” species, of which circa 100 naturally occur only in Western Australia’s southwest.
Literally translated, Verticordia means “turner of hearts”, an epithet applied to the Roman goddess Venus.
As is true of so many of southwest WA’s endemic flowering plants, the more closely you look, the more exquisite are the various members of this genus.
They are members of the myrtle family.
I think that this post’s example is Verticordia inclusa, the Dainty Featherflower.
Both photos were taken late on the afternoon of 21 September 2021, off Dunns Swamp Road, circa 4 kilometres northeast of Hopetoun.
Discover more about Verticordia, here
Anyone who drove along Dunns Swamp Road during 2021’s extraordinary Spring could not have failed to notice how spectacularly evident was a very different, much “louder” flowering plant….as you will see in Pelican Yoga’s next post.