It has egg-shaped to more or less circular leaves, erect white flowers arranged singly or in groups on short side branches, and green fruit.

Correa alba is a prostrate to spreading shrub that typically grows to a height of 1.5 m (4 ft 11 in) and has rust-coloured, woolly-hairy young stems.

The petals are white, rarely pale pink, 11–13 mm (0.43–0.51 in) long, woolly hairy on the back and spreading more or less free from each other.

[2][3][4][10] Variety alba occurs from Port Stephens and along the coasts of New South Wales and as far west as Cape Otway in Victoria.

Variety pannosa is found along the south-west coast of Victoria and as far east as the Encounter Bay region of South Australia.