Shrub to c. 80 cm high; indumentum woolly, greyish. Leaves narrowly ovate, linear-elliptic to linear-obovate, 1–3 cm long, 0.2–0.5 cm wide, subacute to obtuse, margin smooth, recurved. Peduncle 1–2.5 cm long; bracts subtending cymes rhombic-obovate, deep bluish-purple, c. 6–10 mm long; terminal bracts 12–25 mm long. Calyx 4–6 mm long, lobes under 1 mm long, many-veined; corolla c. 6–8 mm long, tube white tinged blue distally, limb dark purple, much longer than calyx; stamens included within corolla-tube. Flowers Sep.–Jan.
VVP, GipP, Gold, GGr, DunT, NIS, HSF, HNF. Commonly cultivated (with numerous cultivars and hybrids known), noted as naturalised along the Henty Highway between Horsham and Hamilton, and in paddocks near Dunolly, Moorabool and Beechworth.
