Andersonia gracilis is a species of flowering plant in the family Ericaceae and is endemic to the southwest of Western Australia.
It is a slender erect or open straggly shrub with more or less lance-shaped leaves and groups of two to ten densely bearded, white or pinkish-purple, tube-shaped flowers.
Andersonia gracilis is a slender erected or open straggly shrub, that typically grows to 10–50 cm (3.9–19.7 in) high.
[2][3][4] Andersonia gracilis was first formally described in 1839 by Augustin Pyramus de Candolle in his Prodromus Systematis Naturalis Regni Vegetabilis from specimens collected near the Swan River by James Drummond.
[7] This species of Andersonia grows in winter-wet areas and near swamps near Perth in the Geraldton Sandplains and Swan Coastal Plain of south-western Western Australia.