 George placed this species in subgenus "Chrysoma", section "Chrysoma" along with "V. citrella", "V. endlicheriana" and "V. acerosa".This verticordia occurs in the area between the Beaufort River, Kalgan, Lake King and the Stirling Range National Park, in the Avon Wheatbelt, Esperance Plains, Jarrah Forest and Mallee biogeographic regions.It grows in clay and sand, sometimes over laterite soils, on flats and rises in heath, shrubland and open woodland.