Epacris serpyllifolia

serpyllifolia Epacris serpyllifoliais a species of flowering plant in the heath family Ericaceae and is endemic to Tasmania.

It is a small low-lying or weakly erect shrub with heart-shaped to broadly egg-shaped leaves and tube-shaped white flowers crowded in upper leaf axils.

Epacris serpyllifolia is a prostrate, low-lying or weakly erect, sometimes bushy shrub that typically grows to a height of up to 30 cm (12 in).

The flowers are borne in leaf axils near the ends of branches with often coloured sepals about 3 mm (0.12 in) long.

[2][3][4] Epacris serpyllifolia was first formally described in 1810 by Robert Brown in his Prodromus Florae Novae Hollandiae.

Near the summit of Mount Wellington