Erect to prostrate shrub, often spindly with intertwined branches, 0.1–2 m high; branches sparsely to moderately hairy, hairs antrorse. Leaves scattered, sessile, linear to narrow-oblong or -ovate, 5–9 mm long, 0.5–1 mm wide, base narrowly cuneate, margin incurved or inrolled. Flowers in leafy racemose inflorescences, appearing axillary; bracteoles 1.6–3 mm long, 0.3–0.5 mm wide. Calyx 4–5 mm long, tube 2–3 mm long, adaxial lobe 1.5–2 mm long (slightly enlarged in fruit); corolla white to pale mauve (rarely bluish), 8–10 mm long; anther appendage 0.5–0.8 mm long.  Flowers Sep.–Dec.