About Leucopogon verticillatus R.Br.
Leucopogon verticillatus R.Br. is an erect, hairless shrub that usually reaches a height of up to 1.5 metres (4 feet 11 inches). Its leaves are light green, broadly lance-shaped, and sharply pointed. Most leaves are between 50 and 100 millimetres (2.0 to 3.9 inches) long, and up to 25 millimetres (0.98 inches) wide. Leaves are mostly crowded at the ends of each year's new growth, giving them an appearance of being arranged in whorls. Leaf edges are curved downwards, and fine veins are visible on the leaf surface. Flowers grow crowded along unbranched spikes up to 60 millimetres (2.4 inches) long, which form in leaf axils and at the ends of branches. The bracts and bracteoles of the flowers are less than half the length of the sepals. Sepals are about 2 millimetres (0.079 inches) long, while petals are pink, about 4 millimetres (0.16 inches) long, and joined at the base to form a tube. The petal lobes are about half the length of the petal tube. This species flowers in September and October. It most often grows in lateritic or gravelly soils in wet locations within karri, jarrah, and marri forest. It occurs between Perth and Waychinicup National Park, in the Esperance Plains, Jarrah Forest, Swan Coastal Plain and Warren bioregions of southern Western Australia.
