Noccaea caerulescens is a low biennial or perennial plant that has small basal rosettes of stalked elliptic–lanceolate leaves with entire margins.

The individual flowers are regular, with white or pinkish petals and are about 5 mm (0.2 in) wide.

Each has four sepals, four petals, six stamens (four long and two short) with violet anthers, and a single carpel.

It is also found in the Alps, the Massif Central, the Pyrenees, eastern Norway, southern Germany, and northern England.

[4] It is a plant of dry hillside meadows, forest margins, banks, gardens, lawns, pastures, field margins, yards and bare places.