Westringia cremnophila

Silver-grey shrub 0.1–0.5 m high, much-branched, usually growing more-or-less horizontally out of steep cliffs; branches densely covered in somewhat appressed, white hairs. Leaves in whorls of 3 (rarely 4), narrowly oblong (appearing almost linear), 10–20 mm long, 1–2 mm wide, length-to-width ratio c. 10, densely silky-hairy when young, but upper surface becoming glabrous or nearly so, minutely scabrous, margin entire and strongly revolute, apex obtuse, sometimes mucronate; petiole 0.4–1 mm long. Bracteoles c. 1 mm long. Calyx with outer surface densely covered with white hairs, tube 3–3.5 mm long, lobes, c. 2 mm long, to c. 1 mm wide, lobe-to-tube ratio 0.6–0.7; corolla c. 10 mm long, white with mauve (lavender) tinge, yellow-brown dots in throat. Flowers mainly spring.