It is a small shrub with distinctive round leaves, yellowish new growth and purple flowers which are white inside.

Flowering occurs between April and October and the fruit which follow are oval to conical in shape, 6.5–8 mm (0.26–0.31 in) long and thickly covered with branched white hairs.

[2][3] Eremophila strongylophylla was first formally described by Ferdinand von Mueller in 1876 and the description was published in Fragmenta phytographiae Australiae.

[7] The most attractive forms of E. strogylophylla are those with gold tips on the new leaves but all are small shrubs with lilac-coloured to purple flowers over an extended period.

The plant will grow in most soils in a sunny or part-shaded position and only requires the occasional watering during a long drought.