Streptoglossa liatroides is a short-lived, upright or with prostrate stems, annual or perennial herb growing to about 50 cm (20 in) high, and sparsely branched.

The leaves and branches are faintly fragrant, and covered with soft, weak, separated thin hairs and glandular.

Flowering occurs from April to November and the fruit is dry, one-seeded, 2.5–4 mm (0.098–0.157 in) long, ribbed, thickly or sparsely covered in silky, flattened hairs.

[5] In 1981 Clyde Robert Dunlop changed the name to Streptoglossa liatroides and the description was published in Journal of the Adelaide Botanic Garden.

[8] Wertaloona daisy grows in a variety of soils including coastal limestone, and sometimes on stony flats near sand dunes.