It is a small sub-shrub with variable leaves and mostly blue, mauve or purple flowers.

Flowering occurs mainly from August to January and the fruit is a rounded oblong shape, 4–5 mm (0.16–0.20 in) long, ribbed and covered in rusty coloured hairs.

[2][3][4] Dampiera stricta was first formally described in 1810 by Robert Brown and the description was published in Prodromus Florae Novae Hollandiae et Insulae Van Diemen.

[5][6] The specific epithet (stricta) means "straight" or "erect".

[7] Blue dampiera is a common species usually growing in open forest and heath on sandy, gravel or loamy soils in New South Wales, Queensland and Victoria on the Great Dividing Range and coastal locations.